and the notice I saw about it mentioned that court workers by law could not do routine work. The exact quote is:
'federal law prohibits unpaid government employees from handling any matters
“except for emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property.”
31 U.S.C. § 1342. The statute provides the following definition: “As used in this section, the
term ‘emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property’ does not
include ongoing, regular functions of government the suspension of which would not imminently
threaten the safety of human life or the protection of property.”'