District Court

• Bail reviews
• Bench warrants
• Emergency evaluations
• Quarantine and isolation violations
• Body attachments

Circuit Courts

• Bail reviews
• Bench warrants
• Arraignments for detained defendants
• Juvenile detention
• Juvenile shelter care
• Peace order petitions (juvenile respondents)
• Emergency evaluations
• Quarantine and isolation
• Extradition
• Body attachments
• Extreme risk protective order appeals

Court of Appeals

• Certain election law matters
• Mandamus
• Certified questions of law
• Quarantine and isolation

District Court:

Criminal and Traffic

• Bail reviews and reconsiderations
• Matters regarding locally incarcerated defendants (in accordance with April 14, 2020 order)
• Trials for incarcerated individuals
• Trials for other criminal actions alleging violent acts
• Trials for alcohol-related motor vehicle cases
• Guilty pleas with deferral of incarceration start date considered
• Mental health evaluations and competency matters
• Preliminary hearings
• Hearings on petitions for violation of probation
• Juvenile waiver hearings
• Any other criminal proceeding that can be conducted remotely

Civil

• Emergency evaluation petitions
• Quarantine and isolation petitions
• Body attachments
• Temporary and final domestic violence, peace, and extreme risk protective orders
• Temporary restraining orders
• Any other civil proceeding that can be conducted remotely

Landlord/Tenant

• Rent escrow actions, provided local inspection practices are capable of being conducted
• Emergency breach of lease involving threat to person or property and associated warrants of restitution
• Emergency wrongful detainer actions and associated warrants of restitution
• Emergency tenant holding over actions and associated warrants of restitution
• Processing of warrants of restitution for failure to pay rent actions

Problem-Solving Courts

• Proceedings of drug, mental health, DUI, veterans’, and reentry courts.

Circuit Courts

Civil

• Emergency habeas corpus matters
• Temporary restraining orders
• Scheduling conferences
• Status conferences
• On the record appeals
• Matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both.

Criminal

• Bail reviews, bail reconsiderations, and bench warrants including matters involving locally incarcerated defendants (in accordance with April 14, 2020 order)
• Arraignments for detained defendants
• Extradition cases
• Competency, criminal responsibility issues not requiring witness testimony status, and discovery and Hicks issues
• Deferred sentencing for non-incarcerated defendants
• Pleas agreements without recommendations for incarceration
• Motions that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both

Family

• Scheduling conferences
• Status conferences
• Uncontested divorce and other uncontested matters
• Domestic violence protective orders
• Domestic violence, peace, and extreme risk protective order appeals
• Family law emergencies that have been determined to require an expedited hearing
• Emergency issues in guardianship matters
• Temporary restraining orders
• Default hearings
• Exceptions not requiring witness testimony
• Matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both

Child in Need of Assistance (CINA)

• Shelter care hearings
• CINA matters that are uncontested or can be heard by proffer including adjudications, dispositions, permanency plans, and permanency plan reviews.
• Termination of parental rights that are by consent or proffer
• Exceptions (uncontested, consented to, or requiring legal argument only)
• Family Treatment/Recovery Court reviews
• Guardianships under juvenile causes
• Adoptions re: CINA and TPR youth
• Matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both

Juvenile Delinquency

• Detention hearings
• Peace order petitions (juvenile respondents)
• Arraignments and first appearances
• Emergency delinquency matters
• Adjudication with agreed to plea and/or by proffer
• Disposition by consent or proffer
• Disposition reviews
• Delinquency juvenile treatment plans and reviews
• Closure of probation and jurisdiction not requiring testimony
• Juvenile expungements not requiring testimony
• Juvenile permanency plans and reviews by consent or proffer
• Juvenile waivers by consent and not requiring testimony
• Exceptions no requiring witness testimony
• Matters that can be heard remotely or without testimony or both

Problem-solving Courts

• Proceedings of drug, mental health, family/dependence recovery, DUI, veterans’, juvenile drug, and truancy courts.

Court of Appeals

• Fully operational
• The court will hear all matters in its jurisdiction.
• Hearings will be held remotely.

District Court

Criminal and Traffic

• Same as Phase two
• Any other matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both

Civil

• Temporary and final domestic violence, peace, and extreme risk protective orders and petitions during court hours
• Any other matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both

Landlord/Tenant

• Tenant holding over actions and associated warrants of restitution
• Any breach of lease actions and any associated warrants of restitution
• Any wrongful detainer actions and associated warrants of restitution
• Processing of warrants of restitution for failure to pay rent actions

Circuit Courts

Civil

• Emergency evaluation petitions
• Quarantine and isolation petitions
• Body attachments
• Motions requiring witness testimony
• Settlement hearings
• Attorney disciplinary hearings

Criminal

• Motions
• Expungements
• Violation of probation hearings
• Non-jury trials
• Jury prayer status hearings
• Sentencings previously deferred

Family

• Resume handling of temporary domestic violence protective order petitions during court hours
• Motions requiring witness testimony
• Pendente lite hearings
• Contempt proceedings
• Adoptions
• Guardianship - non-emergency
• Child support matters: establishment
• Settlement hearings
• Court-ordered mediations

Child in Need of Assistance (CINA)

• All matters and motions that are contested and/or require testimony
• Exceptions hearings requiring witness testimony
• Contested TPR proceedings

Juvenile Delinquency, with priority scheduling for those juveniles: turning 21 within 90 days of the beginning of Phase III; returning from placement; with issues with permanency plans; closures of cases; and possible placement on the juvenile and/or adult sexual offender registries
 

• Juvenile expungements
• Juvenile permanency plans and reviews, if not contested or by proffer or both
• Exception hearings
• All matters that are contested and/or requiring testimony
• Motions
• Juvenile and adult sex offender registration matters
• Waiver hearings, including to and from Juvenile Court

Court of Appeals

• Hearings may be held in person or remotely

District Court

Criminal and Traffic

• All criminal matters
• Minor traffic matters
• Begin scheduling dockets that begin during Phase Five for:
  • Red light
  • Parking
  • Speed camera
  • School bus
  • Toll/MTA
  • Other civil citations including previously postponed matters

Civil

• All civil matters

Landlord/Tenant

• Failure to pay rent

Problem-solving Courts

• Fully operational

Circuit Courts

Civil

• Non-jury trials
• De novo appeals

Criminal

• Post-conviction hearings
• Three-judge panel sentence reviews

Family

• Hearings and trials
• Child support contempts

Child in Need of Assistance (CINA)

• Fully operational

Juvenile Delinquency

• Fully operational

Problem-solving Courts

• Fully operational

Court of Appeals

Same as Phase Two.

District Court

Fully operational

Circuit Courts

Fully operational, including jury trials in criminal and civil case types.

Court of Appeals

Fully operational