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Order Declaring a Judicial Emergency in Response to COVID-19 Emergency

Order Declaring a Judicial Emergency in Response to COVID-19 Emergency

Supreme Court of Virginia · Virginia (Court)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Virginia
Level
Court
Authority
Va. Code § 17.1-330
Issued
2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
Effective
2020-03-16
End
Twenty-one days; extended without interruption by numbered orders through Oct. 13, 2021 (Twenty-Eighth Order) and into 2022 (Fortieth Order, May 27, 2022) (read as 2021-10-13)
In force
Mar. 16, 2020 to Oct. 13, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Courts and public offices
Addressees
  • all circuit and district courts of the Commonwealth
  • litigants
  • jurors
Functions reached
  • CT courts and clerks
  • CL closings and title
  • SV collections and foreclosure
  • PJ projects dependent on court process
Collection
Virginia VA

Operative words

this Order declaring a judicial emergency is hereby issued for all district and circuit courts of the Commonwealth... and it is hereby ORDERED that NON-ESSENTIAL, NON-EMERGENCY court proceedings in all circuit and district courts be and hereby are SUSPENDED and all deadlines are hereby tolled and extended, pursuant to Va. Code § 17.1-330(D), for a period of twenty-one days... 1. Continue all civil, traffic and criminal matters, including jury trials... 6. Suspend new juror orientations.

Enforcement

Order of the Supreme Court binding on all courts

Notes

The archived court file list shows the full chain: Apr. 22, May 1, May 6, June 22 (Sixth), July 8 (Seventh), July 28 (Eighth), Aug. 7 (amendment: evictions), Aug. 20 (Ninth), Sept. 4 (Tenth), Sept. 28 (Eleventh), Oct. 19 (Twelfth), Nov. 9 (Thirteenth), Dec. 3 (Fourteenth), Dec. 18, 2020 (Fifteenth), Jan. 19 (Sixteenth), Feb. 8 (Seventeenth), Mar. 2 (Eighteenth), Mar. 15 (Nineteenth), Apr. 12 (Twentieth), May 3 (Twenty-First), May 26 (Twenty-Second), June 15 (Twenty-Third), June 29 (Twenty-Fourth), July 7 (Twenty-Fifth), Aug. 4 (Twenty-Sixth), Aug. 25 (Twenty-Seventh), Sept. 20 (Twenty-Eighth), Oct. 5 (Twenty-Ninth), Oct. 25, 2021 (Thirtieth) and onward.

Retrieval note

vacourts.gov refuses automated live requests (403/404); the Wayback captures of the court's own PDFs were used.

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