{"id":"OK-049","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Oklahoma","state":"OK","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (Gurich, C.J.; Lewis, P.J.)","authority":"Okla. Const. art. VII; SCAD No. 2020-24; published 2020 OK 25, 462 P.3d 704","instrument":"First Emergency Joint Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster (SCAD 2020-24)","title":"All jury terms cancelled for 30 days; all deadlines and procedures suspended 30 days; statutes of limitation extended 30 days; courthouse entry barred to exposed, symptomatic, traveled or quarantined persons","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16","end":"Modified and extended by the Second Emergency Joint Order (Mar. 27, 2020) through May 15, 2020","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CRT","GATH"],"addressees":["all district courts","appellate courts","court clerks","litigants and the public"],"clause":"2. All district courts in Oklahoma shall immediately cancel all jury terms for the next 30 days and release jurors from service. No additional jurors shall be summoned without approval of the Chief Justice. All civil, criminal and juvenile jury trials shall be continued to the next available jury dockets. 3. Subject only to constitutional limitations, all deadlines and procedures whether prescribed by statute, rule or order in any civil, juvenile or criminal case, shall be suspended for 30 days from the date of this order.... 4. In any civil case, the statute of limitations shall be extended for 30 days from the date of this order.... 6. The following persons are prohibited from entering any courtroom, court clerk\u0027s office, judges\u0027 offices, jury room or other facility used by the district courts:... 7. All courts may limit the number of persons who may enter any courtroom, judges\u0027 or clerk\u0027s office, jury room or any other facility used by the district courts.","enforcement":"Order of the Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals binding all district courts (upheld in McBee v. Shanahan Home Design, LLC, per Oklahoma Bar Journal)","functions":["CT/CRT courts, clerks, hearings, jury trials","CL closings and recordings dependent on clerks","CB litigants"],"notes":"Recited by Tulsa EO 2020-04/05.","sourceUrl":"https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=486526","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200709100129/https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=486526","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":128451,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"OK","url":"/library/OK-049","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/OK-049","citation":"Supreme Court of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (Gurich, C.J.; Lewis, P.J.), First Emergency Joint Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster (SCAD 2020-24) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. OK-049)","stateName":"Oklahoma","related":["DUT-OK-019"]}