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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- O.C.G.A. 38-3-60 to 38-3-64
- Issued
- 2020-03-14 Mar. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-14
- End
- 2021-06-30 11:59 P.M. (extended fifteen times; Fifteenth Order filed June 7, 2021) (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 14, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all courts, clerks, litigants and counsel in Georgia
- Functions reached
- CT courts (jury trials suspended Mar. 14-Oct. 2020 and Dec. 22, 2020-Mar. 2021; deadlines tolled to July 14, 2020; jury and grand jury deadlines tolled to June 30, 2021)
- CL foreclosure, eviction and transaction litigation
- CB legal-services clients
- Collection
- Georgia GA
Operative words
The March 14, 2020 Judicial Emergency Order suspended, tolled, extended, and [otherwise granted relief from] deadlines... (as recited in Ex. GA-051); Orders regarding the Statewide Judicial Emergency, which expired on June 30, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. (Judicial Council of Georgia, Emergency Judicial Orders page)
Enforcement
Order of the Chief Justice under 38-3-61
Notes
Recited in EO 04.03.20.02 (Ex. GA-021) and in the Augusta Circuit's July 1, 2021 order (Ex. GA-051); the Judicial Council states the emergency 'expired on June 30, 2021, at 11:59 p.m.'
Retrieval noteExistence, date, scope and expiry confirmed from two primary court records read (Exs. GA-021, GA-051) and the Judicial Council's page; the Chief Justice's own PDF was not located without web search.