The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Tampa Division) · Florida
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- 5 U.S.C. 705, 706; Fed. R. Civ. P. 65
- Issued
- 2021-06-18 June 18, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-18 (stayed by the Eleventh Circuit July 17 and the stay vacated July 23, 2021; the CDC treats the CSO as non-binding in Florida ports from July 23, 2021, SEC-06-007) (read as 2021-07-18)
- End
- The CSO expired Jan. 15, 2022 (read as 2022-01-15)
- In force
- July 18, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- CDC
- cruise ships at Florida ports
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Hotels, Travel and Tourism SEC-06
Operative words
In response to incidents of COVID-19 infection aboard cruise and naval vessels in early 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a series of 'no-sail orders' that halted the cruise industry's operation from March 2020 through October 2020. Effective October 30, 2020, CDC issued a 'conditional sailing order,' the stated purpose of which is to safely re-open the cruise industry under a four-phased 'framework.'
Enforcement
Notes
Fixes the Q3 2021 status of the CSO: binding in every port outside Florida on every day of the quarter, and binding in Florida ports through July 22, 2021. The court's own recital that the no-sail orders 'halted the cruise industry's operation from March 2020 through October 2020' is a judicial finding of suspension.
Retrieval note124-page order; pages 1-2 read for the recitals quoted; the injunction's operative terms are at the end of the order.