The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois · Illinois
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Ill. S. Ct. R. 21(b); Ill. S. Ct. M.R. 30370 (eff. June 30, 2021); Cook County Department of Public Health guidance (recited)
- Issued
- 2021-10-19 Oct. 19, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-10-15 (with provisions effective Sept. 7 and Sept. 20, 2021) (read as 2021-10-15)
- End
- Repealed in 2022 (post-period; not verified)
- In force
- Oct. 15, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitGathering capCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all judges and employees of the Circuit Court
- attorneys, litigants, jurors and witnesses
- Functions reached
- CT courts and agencies (Q3 2021: distancing, capacity and jury-assembly limits in force in every Cook County courthouse)
- Collection
- State courts AGY-ST-COURTS
Operative words
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, pursuant to Ill. S. Ct., Illinois Courts Response to COVID-19 Emergency/ Social Distancing, M.R. 30370 (eff. June 30, 2021) and guidance received June 14, 2021, from the Cook County Dept. of Public Health, the requirement of six feet of distance between persons in the courtroom is modified to require three feet of distance between persons in the courtroom; the following jury assembly rooms shall continue to maintain six feet of distance between persons... IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, effective September 20, 2021, and until said physical distancing requirements end, the jury assembly areas at the Daley Center shall be expanded
Enforcement
General administrative order under Ill. S. Ct. R. 21(b)
Notes
Direct evidence that the Circuit Court of Cook County was operating under COVID-19 distancing and capacity orders on Sept. 30, 2021 and after.
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