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2 verbatim requirements from document (unlisted) [unlisted] Twentieth_Judicial_Circuit_Advisory15-COVID19.
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • Under Protocol 1B, unless required by federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations or unless authorized by section 1C, a court may not require the wearing of a face mask or physical distancing in a courthouse. • Under Protocol 1C, If warranted by local health conditions, the Chief Judge may require the wearing of face masks by all persons in a courthouse and/or physical distancing measures to be instituted during an in-person court proceeding. • If a person does not have a face mask, one will be provided at no cost. • Remote technology is still strongly encouraged and will still be used as an alternative to in-person proceedings, when appropriate, to facilitate the efficient and expeditious processing of cases. • The Chief Judge and our Trial Court Administrator will continue to review local health conditions on a weekly basis in our five counties.
Under Protocol 1B, unless required by federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations or unless authorized by section 1C, a court may not require the wearing of a face mask or physical distancing in a courthouse.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: f28bd89a929807df6c2387b4717d24aac2a6f2059447371454bd808c4b742e30. Extracted from the order's own text layer. | Title normalised 2026-07-26 for readability; the court's own asset name was "20th Cir. Document (unlisted) — [unlisted] Twentieth_Judicial_Circuit_Advisory15-COVID19". Only the display title changed — the requirement text, source URL and hash are untouched. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 1 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from Fourth Circuit administrative order 2003-06.