UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA
ENTERED
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IN RE: PRESIDENT JAMES EARL CARTER, JR.
NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING DEC 31 2024
RORY L PERRY 11, CLERK
U.S. o;strict Court
GENERAL ORDER Southern Olstrict of West Vlr lnla
The Supreme Court and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts will
be closed on January 9, 2025, in observance of the National Day of Mourning authorized by
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., on December 29, 2024, and following, TO WIT:
I do further appoint January 9, 2025, as a National Day of Mourning
throughout the United States. I call on the American people to assemble on that
day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of
President James Earl Carter, Jr. I invite the people of the world who share our grief
to join us in this solemn observance.
Proclamation Announcing the Death of James Earl Carter, Jr., 2024 WL 5244950, at *1 (Dec. 29,
2024); see also Executive Order Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies
of the Federal Government, 2024 WL 5244949, at *1 (Dec. 30, 2024).
The decision respecting local closures is left, in part, to the sound discretion of the
several courts throughout the Nation created by 28 U.S.C. § 132(a). The Southern District of West
Virginia has traditionally observed national days of mourning by closure.
Accordingly, in observance of the National Day of Mourning, the offices of the
Southern District of West Virginia will be closed for business on Thursday, January 9, 2025,
with the single proceeding before the Undersigned at 2:00 p.m. that day to be rescheduled by
separate order. This General Order is subject to the proviso that certain proceedings already
scheduled by the Undersigned’s colleagues on January 9, 2025, will proceed as scheduled unless
otherwise ordered by those individual judicial officers.
ENTER: December 31, 2024
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Frank W. Volk
United States District Judge
