President Judge Administrative Order Amended No. 33 of 2020

The record

Jurisdiction

First Judicial District of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia · Pennsylvania

Level

Court

Authority

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Order of Apr. 28, 2020 (Nos. 531 and 532 Judicial Administration Docket); Pa.R.J.A. 1952

Issued

2020-05-21 May 21, 2020

Effective

2020-05-21

End

Jury trials suspended through Sept. 8, 2020; in-person proceedings cancelled through July 6, 2020; Family Court matters through Dec. 31, 2020 rescheduled (read as 2020-09-08)

In force

May 21, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2020

Quarters

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Courts and public offices

Addressees

• all courts of the First Judicial District; litigants, counsel, jurors, filers; landlords and lenders

Functions reached

• CT every in-person proceeding cancelled; in-person filing suspended
• ML mortgage foreclosure filings barred to July 10, 2020
• PM landlord-tenant filings barred to July 10/26, 2020; evictions stayed
• OF law-firm, court-reporting and process-serving operations

Collection

Philadelphia MET-PHL

Operative words

(1) Civil and Criminal Jury Trials are suspended through September 8, 2020. Jury duty is cancelled through September 8, 2020.... (3) Unless counsel are notified specifically to the contrary, all in person criminal, civil, orphans' court, municipal court and traffic court trials, hearings, and conferences scheduled through July 6, 2020 are administratively canceled and shall be rescheduled.... (5) Filing of legal papers in person at filing offices is suspended for the protection of court staff and court users until further order of the court.... (7) Pursuant to Governor Wolf's May 7, 2020 Executive Order, effective May 11, 2020, the notices mandated by Act 6 and Act 91 are stayed for 60 days thereby delaying the filing of new mortgage foreclosure cases until July 10, 2020. (8)... effective July 10, 2020, the Court of Common Pleas and the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall accept for filing new nonresidential landlord-tenant cases and residential landlord-tenant cases in which the leased property is not a 'covered property' under Section 4024 of the [CARES Act]. (9) Effective July 26, 2020, the Court... shall accept for filing residential landlord-tenant cases in which the leased property is a 'covered property' under the CARES Act.... no trial will be scheduled before August 26, 2020.... (11) The issuance of residential writs of possession and the execution or enforcement of residential writs of possession which were stayed... will resume upon the expiration of Governor Wolf's Stay-At-Home Order to Philadelphia, or July 10, 2020, whichever date is [later]...

Enforcement

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