UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
2022 AUG 21~ PM 3: 53
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ORDER RESCINDING GENERAL ORDER :AST. DIV. COLUMBUS
20-10 REGARDING PRO HAC VICE AMENDED
APPLICATIONS DURING THE COVID-19 GENERAL ORDER NO. 22-19 1
PANDEMIC
The Court issued General Order 20-10 as one in a series of General Orders in response to
the spread of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the Southern District of Ohio and
elsewhere. Because of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the concomitant reduction
of judicial staffs throughout the country, the highest courts of numerous states were not issuing
certificates of good standing to applicants filing pro hac vice motions. General Order 20-10
provides that in lieu of the referenced certificate of good standing, an applicant for admission pro
hac vice may provide an affidavit or declaration under penalty of perjury conforming to 28
U.S.C. § 1746 that the applicant is in good standing as an attorney at law with the highest court
of a State or the District of Columbia. The Order further provides that once the pandemic abates
in the applicant's jurisdiction, the applicant has 30 days within which to secure a certificate of
good standing from the highest court of the applicant's State and file it with the Court as required
by S.D. Ohio Civ. R. 83.3(e).
As COVID-19 cases resulting in serious illness and death have decreased throughout the
country, and based on information that the highest courts of numerous states have resumed issuing
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Amended General Order 22-19 clarifies that the time period of Local Rule 83.3(e) is not more than six
months prior to the date of the motion. General Order 22-19, filed on August 22, 2022, indicated a time
frame of not more than three months prior to the date of the motion, which was in effect when General
Order 20-10 was entered. Local Rule 83 was amended in February 2022 to lengthen the good standing
certification to six months.
certificates of good standing, the accommodation reflected in General Order 20-10 is no longer
necessary.
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that General Order 20-10 is RESCINDED.
Motions for application to be admitted to practice in this Court pro hac vice must be
accompanied by an original certificate of good standing from the highest court of a State or the
District of Columbia (and not from another federal court) that has been issued not more than six
months prior to the date of the motion in accordance with S.D. Ohio Civ. R. 83.3(e).
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED: August 24, 2022
TRICTJUDGE
