Coronavirus Updates: As Businesses Reopen, Jury Trials In Georgia Remain On Hold

A Waffle House restaurant has “OPEN” painted across its windows last month in Savannah, Georgia, as restaurants statewide were allowed to resume dine-in service with restrictions.

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Updated Monday at 6:50 p.m.

Even with some businesses reopening and a statewide shelter-in-place order lifted, the coronavirus outbreak continues to keep Georgia courts from returning to normal operations.

Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton on Monday announced that he’s extending a statewide judicial emergency through mid-June. That means civil and criminal jury trials will continue to be on hold and no jurors or grand jurors will be called to serve.