The New York State court system has halted New York City housing court evictions for at least a week and has instructed those courts to not issue eviction notices when someone fails to appear for a hearing as part of new measures that escalate the system’s response to the coronavirus.
The new plans, issued in a Friday memo from Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks, also suspend civil jury trials that haven’t started, criminal trials where the jury has not yet been sworn in and bar the empaneling of new grand juries “absent exceptional circumstances.”
The memorandum is the third issued ...
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