The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Tenn. Const. art. VI, § 1; Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 16-3-501 to -504; Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 49
- Issued
- 2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
- Effective
- Mar. 25, 2020 (read as 2020-03-25)
- End
- Apr. 30, 2020 (modified by the Apr. 24, 2020 order) (read as 2020-04-30)
- In force
- Mar. 25, 2020 to Apr. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all state and local courts
- Functions reached
- CT in-person court proceedings suspended through Apr. 30, 2020
- CL/OF deadlines extended
- Collection
- Tennessee TN
Operative words
all in-person proceedings in all state and local courts in Tennessee, including but not limited to municipal, juvenile, general sessions, trial, and appellate courts, shall be suspended from the close of business on Friday, March 13, 2020, through Thursday, April 30, 2020, subject to the exceptions [relief from abuse, orders of protection, emergency child custody, emergency mental health, and similar]... Any Tennessee state or local rule... that impedes a judge's or court clerk's ability to utilize available technologies to limit in-person contact is suspended through Thursday, April 30, 2020
Enforcement
Order of the Supreme Court binding on all courts
Retrieval noteScanned file posted Mar. 27, 2020; it opens with a judicial district's Standing Order 2020-02 implementing the Supreme Court's order and attaches the Supreme Court's Mar. 25, 2020 order; text read by OCR.