The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday upheld the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions nationwide freeze on most evictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 2-1 opinion by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the landlords who brought the suit failed to do what they needed to do to strike down the moratorium: prove they have suffered an irreparable injury because of the freeze.
The moratorium has been in place since March 2020, first under the CARES Act and then after the CDC imposed the freeze last September. The Biden Administration has since repeatedly extended the moratorium, and when announcing in June it was banning evictions until July 31, the administration said that was intended to be the final exte…
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