Courts have closed all over the area. Here's an article on the Missouri Supreme Court's response to the pandemic.
How do you know what each one is doing? The Missouri Supreme Court has created a page to collect court specific responses, which you can find by clicking here. The Illinois Supreme Court's page can be found by clicking here.
The Missouri Supreme Court has offered for April oral arguments to continue them, submit cases o the briefs or argue over video conferencing. What would you do?
To help clients and lawyers with a list of Courts and their coronavirus Orders, web pages and updates, I thought I would list some more here so you can easily keep up with information about closures, procedures, and changes thereto.
Missouri Courts
-https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=7100
Illinois Courts
-http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Administrative/covid-19.asp
St. Louis County
-https://wp.stlcountycourts.com/st-louis-county-circuit-court-coronavirus-update/
St. Louis County Municipal Courts
-https://www.stlouisco.com/Law-and-Public-Safety/Municipal-Courts
St. Louis City
-http://www.stlcitycircuitcourt.com/
-https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/health/communicable-disease/covid-19/documents/upload/COVID-19-Order-10-Summons-Writs-Evictions-and-Service-of-Process.pdf
St. Louis City Municipal Courts
-https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/municipal-courts/news/for-defendants.cfm
-https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/municipal-courts/news/continuances-by-phone-due-to-covid-19.cfm
Federal Court: Eastern District of Missouri
-https://www.moed.uscourts.gov/sites/moed/files/documents/news/Order-03-23-2020.pdf
-https://www.moed.uscourts.gov/
Federal Court: Western District of Missouri
-https://www.mow.uscourts.gov/sites/mow/files/DC-SupersedingOrderCovid19.pdf
St. Clair Court, Illinois
-http://www.co.st-clair.il.us/publicNotices/Pages/default.aspx
Madison County, Illinois
-https://www.co.madison.il.us/departments/circuit_clerk/index.php
5th District Court of Appeals, Illinois
-http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Administrative/covid-19.asp