Federal Judge Overturns CDC’s National Eviction Ban
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Federal judge overturns national eviction ban
Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich struck down on Wednesday the national eviction moratorium, potentially leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has banned most evictions across the country since September. President Joe Biden has since extended that protection to renters until July.
Some 1 in 5 renters across the U.S. are behind on their payments amid the pandemic, and states are scrambling to disburse more than $45 billion in rental assistance.
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Judge overturns federal pandemic eviction moratorium
A federal judge vacated the nationwide moratorium on evictions established last year to protect renters who could not pay their rent due to restrictions meant to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
"The pandemic has triggered difficult policy decisions that have had enormous real-world consequences. The nationwide eviction moratorium is one such decision," D.C. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, ruled on Wednesday.
The Trump administration imposed the eviction moratorium in September using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's quarantine authority. Most recently, the Biden administration said...
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Judge Strikes Down CDC’s National Moratorium on Evictions
A federal judge in Washington blocked a nationwide eviction moratorium the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established as the Covid-19 lockdowns put millions of renters out of work during the past year.
In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said the agency exceeded its authority by issuing a broad moratorium on evictions across all rental properties. “The CDC order must be set aside,” the judge wrote in a 20-page opinion.
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