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Ex. GA-051 Order Primary source read

Local Judicial Emergency Order (In Re: Local Judicial Emergency Order), filed in the Supreme Court of Georgia July 1, 2021

Declaration of local judicial emergency upon expiration of the Statewide Judicial Emergency

Chief Judge, Superior Court of the Augusta Judicial Circuit · Georgia (Augusta Judicial Circuit; Richmond County) (Court)

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Jurisdiction
Georgia (Augusta Judicial Circuit; Richmond County) · Georgia
Level
Court
Authority
O.C.G.A. 38-3-61(a)-(b); 38-3-62
Issued
2021-07-01 July 1, 2021
Effective
2021-07-01
End
30 days unless extended under 38-3-62 (Richmond County extensions filed July 30 and Aug. 30, 2021 per the Judicial Council list) (read as 2021-08-30)
In force
July 1, 2021 to Aug. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Courts and public offices
Addressees
  • courts, litigants and counsel in Richmond County
Functions reached
  • CT courts (backlog; tolled jury and grand jury deadlines)
  • CL closings and litigation-dependent transactions
  • CB clients of law firms
Collection
Georgia GA

Operative words

Effective March 14, 2020, Georgia [Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold] Melton entered an Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 [throughout] Georgia. Chief Justice Melton's Judicial Emergency Order has now been extended fifteen (15) times, with the most recent version filed on June 7, 2021 and set to expire June 30, 2021 at 11:59 [P.M.]... The March 14, 2020 Judicial Emergency Order suspended, tolled, extended, and [otherwise granted relief from deadlines]... of the deadlines on litigants were reimposed, effective July 14, 2020, by the Fourth Order Extending Declaration of Statewide Judicial Emergency filed on July 10, 2020. The exceptions to the reimposition of deadlines on litigants included deadlines for jury trial proceedings (including statutory speedy trial demands), deadlines for grand jury proceedings, and deadlines calculated by reference to the date of a civil or criminal jury trial or grand jury proceeding.... [The court does] DECLARE that there is an ongoing judicial emergency existing in this county which has been created by the statewide judicial emergency that has persisted for approximately fifteen (15) months immediately preceding this Order.

Enforcement

Court order under 38-3-61 filed with the Supreme Court of Georgia

Notes

Primary court record of the statewide judicial emergency's full history and of its continuation locally into Q3 2021; the Judicial Council page lists parallel July 1, 2021 orders in the Atlantic, Eastern (Chatham), Flint (Henry), Cherokee, Cobb and Rockdale circuits and later 2021 orders in Fulton (Sept. 28), Franklin, Hart, Columbia, Burke, Appling, Bartow, Gordon and others.

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