{"id":189,"date":"2020-03-25T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=189"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:14:10","slug":"nonessential-new-york-state-court-litigation-put-on-hold-in-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/25\/nonessential-new-york-state-court-litigation-put-on-hold-in-response-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonessential New York State Court Litigation Put on Hold in Response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 22, 2020, New York\u2019s Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts issued\u00a0<a title=\"Administrative Order AO\/78\/20\" href=\"http:\/\/nycourts.gov\/whatsnew\/pdf\/AO-78-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Administrative Order AO\/78\/20<\/a>\u00a0providing that, until further notice, no filings\u2015paper or electronic\u2015would be accepted by New York courts, except in \u201cessential matters.\u201d This order prohibits any new cases from being filed\u2015and any open cases from going forward\u2015unless they fit the narrow list of \u201cessential matters\u201d annexed to the Administrative Order. This means that, absent a compelling showing of a need for emergency relief such as an injunction, routine business litigations\u2015including breach of contract, employment disputes, corporate disputes, etc.\u2015are on hold indefinitely. The court system\u00a0<a title=\"Administrative Order: Limiting Court Filings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/limited-filings.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has since clarified<\/a>\u00a0that, consistent with a prior Administrative Order,\u00a0<a title=\"Administrative Order AO\/71\/20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/whatsnew\/pdf\/AO71-20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discovery can continue<\/a>\u00a0in ongoing cases where the parties agree that the discovery will not present any health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/nonessential_new_york_state_court_litigation_put_on_hold_response_covid19_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 22, 2020, New York\u2019s Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts issued\u00a0Administrative Order AO\/78\/20\u00a0providing that, until further notice, no filings\u2015paper or electronic\u2015would be accepted by New York courts, except in \u201cessential matters.\u201d This order prohibits any new cases from being filed\u2015and any open cases from going forward\u2015unless they fit the narrow list of \u201cessential &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/25\/nonessential-new-york-state-court-litigation-put-on-hold-in-response-to-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonessential New York State Court Litigation Put on Hold in Response to COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,211,600,171,210],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-essential-matters","tag-filings","tag-litigation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-courts"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}