Landlords sue to block new evictions moratorium
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President Joe Biden may have averted a flood of evictions and solved a growing political problem when his administration imposed a new temporary ban on evictions because of the COVID-19 crisis. But he left his lawyers with legal arguments that even he acknowledges might not stand up in court.
The new eviction moratorium announced Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could run into opposition at the Supreme Court, where one justice in late June warned the administration not to act further without explicit congressional approval. Landlords from Alabama, whose bid to lift the earlier pause on evictions failed, returned to federal court in Washington late Wednesday, asking for an order that would allow evictions to resume.More Related News