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- Jurisdiction
- New Mexico
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Power of superintending control, N.M. Const. art. VI, Section 3
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17
- End
- Superseded by Orders 20-8500-006 (Mar. 23), -013 (Apr. 16), -016 (May 8) and the PHE Court Protocols of July 6, 2020 (NM-025) (read as 2020-07-06)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to July 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capTravel and quarantineCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all State courts
- judges, court personnel, jurors, attorneys, litigants and the public
- Functions reached
- CT courts
- CL closings and litigation
- OF law-firm operations
- CB litigants
- Collection
- New Mexico NM
Operative words
all criminal jury trials... that have not yet commenced shall be suspended until April 30, 2020... All trials that are not required to be suspended under the terms of this order, all hearings, and other court-organized gatherings of any type and at any location shall be held in a manner that limits the gathering of individuals in a single, connected location within a courthouse or other building to no more than twenty-five (25) people... All judges shall have the discretion to authorize telephonic or audio-visual attendance
Enforcement
Order of the Supreme Court binding on every State court
Notes
Recites the Mar. 12, 2020 Supreme Court directive suspending civil jury trials, out-of-State judicial travel and capping courthouse gatherings at 25, and the DOH order of Mar. 12 prohibiting mass gatherings of 100 or more.