On July 20, “nearly 350 federal employees in the five courthouses of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan” began returning to work.

On that day, limited numbers of court employees began returning to their offices in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Port Huron, Bay City, and Flint as a first step in a detailed process of resuming normal operations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ….

The plan is part of [a] nine-page administrative order from Chief Judge Denise Page Hood that was filed July 2, noting that ‘all employees of the District Court will continue to telework,’ although beginning on July 20, staff members ‘may return to the courthouse only as needed and when directed by their supervisors to perform essential functions that cannot be performed remotely’ ….

The federal courts in the Eastern District were closed to the public in late March after a security officer tested positive for the [coronavirus] ….

— Tom Kirvan, Washtenaw County Legal News (July 23, 2020), page 3.