Citing a winter COVID surge, Chief Judge D. Price Marshall, Jr. has ordered that jury trials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas will be postponed until AT LEAST 24 March 2021.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has suspended jury trials across the state until at least 15 January 2021. This is the second time it has suspended them since the start of the pandemic.

The most common response to the surge in COVID cases reported to Bloomberg Law by judges and court administrators across the United States is halting trials by jury.