{"id":"VA-039","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Virginia","state":"VA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Virginia","authority":"Va. Code § 17.1-330","instrument":"Order Declaring a Judicial Emergency in Response to COVID-19 Emergency","title":"Order Declaring a Judicial Emergency in Response to COVID-19 Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16","end":"Twenty-one days; extended without interruption by numbered orders through Oct. 13, 2021 (Twenty-Eighth Order) and into 2022 (Fortieth Order, May 27, 2022)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2021-10-13","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["all circuit and district courts of the Commonwealth","litigants","jurors"],"clause":"this Order declaring a judicial emergency is hereby issued for all district and circuit courts of the Commonwealth... and it is hereby ORDERED that NON-ESSENTIAL, NON-EMERGENCY court proceedings in all circuit and district courts be and hereby are SUSPENDED and all deadlines are hereby tolled and extended, pursuant to Va. Code § 17.1-330(D), for a period of twenty-one days... 1. Continue all civil, traffic and criminal matters, including jury trials... 6. Suspend new juror orientations.","enforcement":"Order of the Supreme Court binding on all courts","functions":["CT courts and clerks","CL closings and title","SV collections and foreclosure","PJ projects dependent on court process"],"notes":"The archived court file list shows the full chain: Apr. 22, May 1, May 6, June 22 (Sixth), July 8 (Seventh), July 28 (Eighth), Aug. 7 (amendment: evictions), Aug. 20 (Ninth), Sept. 4 (Tenth), Sept. 28 (Eleventh), Oct. 19 (Twelfth), Nov. 9 (Thirteenth), Dec. 3 (Fourteenth), Dec. 18, 2020 (Fifteenth), Jan. 19 (Sixteenth), Feb. 8 (Seventeenth), Mar. 2 (Eighteenth), Mar. 15 (Nineteenth), Apr. 12 (Twentieth), May 3 (Twenty-First), May 26 (Twenty-Second), June 15 (Twenty-Third), June 29 (Twenty-Fourth), July 7 (Twenty-Fifth), Aug. 4 (Twenty-Sixth), Aug. 25 (Twenty-Seventh), Sept. 20 (Twenty-Eighth), Oct. 5 (Twenty-Ninth), Oct. 25, 2021 (Thirtieth) and onward.","sourceUrl":"https://www.vacourts.gov/news/items/covid/2020_0317_supreme_court_of_virginia.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20211026002732/https://www.vacourts.gov/news/items/covid/2020_0317_supreme_court_of_virginia.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":54722,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"VA","url":"/library/VA-039","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/VA-039","citation":"Supreme Court of Virginia, Order Declaring a Judicial Emergency in Response to COVID-19 Emergency (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. VA-039)","stateName":"Virginia","related":["VA-040"]}