#ORDER APPROVING JUDICIAL CONSENT FORM NC VERIFICATION#
This directive, renewed in today’s order, permits verification of pleadings and other documents by affirmation of the subscriber.Įmergency Directive 8.
This directive, renewed in today’s order, provides that attorneys and other persons who do not have business in a courthouse should not enter the courthouse and encourages attorneys to submit filings by mail.Įmergency Directive 5. This directive, renewed in today’s order and discussed in more detail here, authorizes judicial officials to conduct proceedings that include remote audio and video transmissions notwithstanding other provisions of law.Įmergency Directive 4. It requires the posting of notices at court facilities directing that any person who has likely been exposed to COVID-19 should not enter the courthouse.Įmergency Directive 3. This directive was renewed in today’s order. The directive does not apply to any proceeding in which a jury already has been empaneled, though Emergency Directive 10, discussed below, provides that no new juries may be empaneled for the next 30 days.Įmergency Directive 2. The senior resident superior court judge, the chief business court judge, or chief district court judge determines that the proceeding may be safely conducted.The proceeding is to obtain emergency relief (such as a domestic violence protection order, temporary restraining order, juvenile custody order, judicial consent to juvenile medical treatment order, or civil commitment order) or.The proceeding is required by due process (such as a first appearance, bond hearing, or probable cause hearing).This directive requires that in-person superior and district court proceedings, including proceedings before clerks of superior court, be scheduled or rescheduled for on or after Januunless one of the following exceptions applies: The provisions of today’s order, discussed in more detail below, expire on January 13, 2021.Įmergency Directive 1. Today’s order reinstitutes Emergency Directive 1, which previously had expired on May 30, 2020, and extends and modifies other emergency directives. It further noted that 53 counties had reported court closures during the pandemic, some more than once, and that 11 counties had reported closures in the past week. The memorandum stated that more than 80 North Carolina counties are experiencing substantial or critical community spread of the virus and that the recent surge of cases and hospitalizations had strained court operations. The Chief Justice and McKinley Wooten, director of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), had issued a memorandum to judicial branch employees on Friday notifying them that the order was coming. Today Chief Justice Cheri Beasley entered an order halting most types of court proceedings due to the rising levels of COVID-19.
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