DOCUMENT 66

ELECTRONICALLY FILED
4/10/2020 12:54 PM
02-CV-2018-902515.00
CIRCUIT COURT OF
MOBILE COUNTY, ALABAMA
JOJO SCHWARZAUER, CLERK
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MOBILE COUNTY, ALABAMA

ELY DORIS, )
ELY TINA, )
Plaintiffs, )
)
V. ) Case No.: CV-2018-902515.00
)
WIGGINS WILLIE IV, )
GEICO CASUALTY COMPANY, )
Defendants. )

ORDER

Thanks for the status report regarding the zoom hearing [Doc. 63]. Here is what
happened:

Based on the Governor's stay at home order of 4/3/2020--which came out several days
after I had set the zoom hearing on 3/31/2020, this court was of the opinion that it
better not even hold virtual hearings because that may require someone (staff
person/IT person/lawyer who doesn't have access to the technology?) to leave home
and violate Gov. MeMaw's order.

Therefore, I cancelled all zoom hearings I had set (I had set about 7 of them), and sent
apparently everyone but you guys and order so stating.

Since this was a motion to opt out, and because we have no trial date yet, I simply
granted that motion back on 3/31 so there was never any need for the hearing. I was
learning how to use the system at the time, and goofed this one up.

Sorry for the confusion, and sorry I did not get you the order saying the hearing was
cnx'd. (I am not the best civil clerk I ever had).

DONE this 10th day of April, 2020.

/s/ JAMES T PATTERSON

CIRCUIT JUDGE