Updated Amended Standing Order 21-04

The record

Jurisdiction

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · New Jersey

Level

Court

Authority

inherent authority; CDC guidance of July 27, 2021

Issued

2021-09-03 Sept. 3, 2021

Effective

2021-09-03

End

superseded by Standing Order 21-11 (Dec. 29, 2021) (read as 2021-12-29)

In force

Sept. 3, 2021 to Dec. 29, 2021

Quarters

2021 Q3

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Capacity limitFace-covering requirementCourts and public offices

Addressees

• litigants, counsel, jurors, court staff and entrants

Functions reached

• CT jury selections capped at one per vicinage; masks for all entrants regardless of vaccination status; temperature screening (Sept. 2021)
• CS

Collection

Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B

Operative words

[WHEREAS the Delta] and other variants, and on July 27, 2021, the CDC recommended that all persons, including those fully vaccinated against COVID-19, wear a mask in public indoor settings, in areas of [substantial or high transmission]... [the Court has required] full vaccination of its employees, while continuing its protocols of temperature screening and hand sanitizing by all entrants to the District's courthouses, and mask wearing in all public areas of Court facilities by entrants and occupants thereof, regardless of vaccination status;... 1. No more than one jury selection, either civil or criminal, shall occur in each vicinage of this Court at one time... 2. Multiple, simultaneous jury trials may be conducted in each of this Court's vicinages, but the number of simultaneous criminal jury trials involving detainees in each [vicinage is limited]... DATED: September 3, 2021

Enforcement

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