At the start of September, the White House issued an executive order allowing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to pause evictions through December 31, 2020. The CDC’s order comes under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act to temporarily halt residential evictions to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. The CDC directive applies to renters…

President Donald Trump announced from the White House Saturday the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “This is my third such nomination after Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh and it is a very proud moment indeed,” Trump said. Read the full article    …

A Texas-based accountant is seeking a full-panel review from the Fifth Circuit as her battle to prove the unconstitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s administrative law judges continues. Michelle Helterbran Cochran continued to claim on Thursday in a petition for en banc review that the SEC’s proceedings against her violate separation-of-powers principles because its…

At least two lawsuits filed in federal court argue that the national eviction moratorium issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Trump administration earlier this month is unconstitutional. The National Apartment Association, a trade group that represents the apartment segment of the rental housing industry, recently joined a lawsuit filed in a Georgia federal…

The National Apartment Association (NAA) and four individual landlords are suing the Trump administration in federal court over the federal eviction moratorium that prevents them from displacing delinquent residential tenants during the ongoing pandemic. Read the full article     TweetShareShare0 Shares

An ongoing legal battle between a federal health agency and multifamily landlords over the rollout of a national eviction moratorium is gaining steam and thousands of new plaintiffs. Three individual landlords and the 85,000-member strong National Apartment Association joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the full article  …