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I searched the databases of the Supreme Administrative Court (which also contains decisions by regional administrative courts), Municipal Court in Prague and the Constitutional Court using the keywords “Covid-19” or “pandemic” together with the term “state of emergency” (“nouzový stav”), and various temporal or processual markers such as “beginning”, “end”, “increase”, “decrease”, “culminate”, “recede”, “augment” and “diminsh”. I selected cases for further analysis based partly on a periodisation of the pandemic into resurgent phases and the calmer interludes between them (in order to include cases from both types of period) and focused mainly, but not exclusively, on decisions that overturned public health measures. The key criterion for inclusion was whether judgements claimed to express or follow any general principles about the course and temporal shape of events.

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