{"id":"NJ-094","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of New Jersey (Chief Justice Stuart Rabner)","authority":"N.J. Const. art. VI, sec. 2, para. 3","instrument":"Supreme Court Order of March 16, 2020 (Rules 7:6-3 and 7:12-3 relaxed)","title":"Pleas by mail in the municipal courts without the \u0022undue hardship\u0022 showing, to apply social distancing","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16 \u0022until further order\u0022","end":"Until further order","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["municipal courts and defendants"],"clause":"\u0022In response to the growing public health crisis worldwide and in this state involving the COVID-19 coronavirus, the New Jersey Judiciary is implementing all possible measures to apply social distancing in current court operations... it is ORDERED, pursuant to N.J. Const., Art. VI, sec. 2, par. 3, that effective immediately and until further order, the provisions of Rule 7:6-3 and Rule 7:12-3 of the Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey are supplemented and relaxed so as to remove the \u0027undue hardship\u0027 requirement for allowing pleas by mail in the municipal courts.\u0022","enforcement":"Order of the Supreme Court","functions":["CT municipal court practice moved to mail and remote channels"],"notes":"Minor court instrument; shows the Judiciary\u0027s stated purpose (\u0022to apply social distancing in current court operations\u0022).","sourceUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200505053043id_/https://www.njcourts.gov/notices/2020/n200317b.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200505053043/https://www.njcourts.gov/notices/2020/n200317b.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":306312,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-094","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-094","citation":"Supreme Court of New Jersey (Chief Justice Stuart Rabner), Supreme Court Order of March 16, 2020 (Rules 7:6-3 and 7:12-3 relaxed) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. NJ-094)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["NJ-090","NJ-095"]}