The latest adjustment in the District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia to the COVID-19 pandemic is the adoption of a modified jury summons packet that will be provided to all prospective jurors within the District. The Court adopted this packet in...
On June 30, 2020, Chief Judge Mark S. Davis issued General Order 2020-19, announcing that the resumption of criminal jury trials in the Eastern District of Virginia will be delayed until September 14, 2020. This most recent General Order does not further address the...
For those of us who practice regularly in the Eastern District of Virginia, for many years, Fridays have been busy days in the courthouse, with lots of traffic at the entrances and in the elevators. This is because the District Judges and Magistrate Judges have...
On May 26, 2020, the Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia issued General Order No. 2020-16 setting forth the “phased expansion of court operations.” This General Order represents the next step in the Court’s efforts to keep court proceedings going while...
In our last installment, we discussed the general orders issued by the court that further continued in-person hearings and deadlines in civil cases. On April 20, 2020, the Clerk of the Court in the Eastern District of Virginia sent out an email announcing a new...
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has continued to issue General Orders adjusting its practice rules to accommodate the competing interests of public health safety and the Constitutional rights and other...
While the nation (and the world) struggle with the spread of the novel coronavirus, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has put a number of changes in place that mirror those occurring in other federal and state courts. A summary of the...
In our inaugural posting, we talked about the metrics that support the association of the “Rocket Docket” monicker with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. There is an important procedural feature of the Rocket Docket that lets it continue to...
This is the inaugural entry of Berenzweig Leonard’s newest blog, named “Riding the Rocket Docket”— intended to focus on the Alexandria Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, frequently referred to as “the Rocket Docket.” In 2019,...
