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Court System Response to COVID-19 (guide) listing the SJC and Trial Court orders

Court system response to COVID-19: orders and announcements (Wayback capture July 1, 2020; 2021 capture read for the later orders)

Supreme Judicial Court and Executive Office of the Trial Court (index page of the Massachusetts Court System) · Massachusetts (Court)

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Jurisdiction
Massachusetts
Level
Court
Authority
SJC superintendence authority, G.L. c. 211, s. 3
Issued
2020-07-01 July 1, 2020
Effective
n/a (index) (read as 2020-07-01)
End
n/a (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
July 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Courts and public offices
Addressees
  • all State courts, litigants, attorneys and the public
Functions reached
  • CT/CL court hearings, jury trials, evictions, foreclosures, closings and recordings dependent on court operations
  • CRT public access to courthouses
Collection
Massachusetts MA

Operative words

Listed orders (July 1, 2020 capture): 'Supreme Judicial Court Order regarding access to state courthouses & court facilities in re: COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, (issued and effective March 13, 2020)'; 'Supreme Judicial Court third updated order regarding court operations under the exigent circumstances created by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (issued June 24, 2020, effective July 1, 2020)'; 'Supreme Judicial Court Issues Order Regarding State Court Operations in June During the Pandemic, May 26, 2020'; 'Trial Court Emergency Administrative Order 20-11... (effective July 1, 2020)'; 'Boston Municipal Court Standing Order 8-20: Phased partial reopening of Boston Municipal Courthouses... (effective July 1, 2020)'; 'Housing Court Non-Emergency Cases will be re-scheduled to after April 21, 2020, March 16, 2020'. (July 1, 2021 capture): 'The Supreme Judicial Court has authorized 12-person juries as of May 1, 2021'; 'Supreme Judicial Court seventh updated order regarding court operations under the exigent circumstances'; 'Supreme Judicial Court sixth updated order'; 'Supreme Judicial Court fourth order regarding public access to state courthouses'; 'Trial Court Omnibus Order of rescission of certain Trial Court Emergency Administrative Orders in light of the expiration of the state of emergency'; 'Use of masks and social distancing continues.'

Enforcement

SJC orders binding on all courts

Notes

The Judiciary's own index establishes their existence and dates.

Retrieval note

Primary as to the Judiciary's own index; the SJC order texts are graded verified_secondary until fetched (the Third Updated Order page failed once).

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