A group of small businesses and churches is pushing forward in their legal battle to get emergency powers stripped away from Governor Charlie Baker. This group claims the governor is overstepping his authority in issuing executive orders related to COVID-19. The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of church pastors and small businesses, basically argues…

The plaintiffs in an unsuccessful lawsuit that sought to overturn many of Gov. Charlie Baker’s executive orders that put business and other gathering restrictions in place during the COVID-19 pandemic are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case. The New Civil Liberties Alliance said Monday that it was in the process of filing…

A D.C. federal judge has vacated the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction ban, Pfizer and BioNTech must face claims they poached research technology while testing their COVID-19 vaccine, and Kentucky’s attorney general has a green light from the Sixth Circuit to continue price-gouging probes into Amazon sellers. Published by Law360 TweetShareShare0…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., struck down Wednesday the national eviction moratorium issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last fall, imperiling millions of renters who have suffered financially because of the coronavirus. The Department of Justice appealed the ruling and filed for an emergency stay to keep the moratorium in…

WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge on Wednesday struck down the nationwide halt on evictions, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority to help millions of renting Americans who were pushed out of work with the outbreak of Covid-19. “It is the role of the political branches, and not the courts, to assess…

The week before a federal appellate court in Atlanta is to consider a challenge to the CDC’s moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus epidemic, a federal judge in Washington on Wednesday vacated the moratorium. The ruling is a setback for advocates of the eviction moratorium issued Sept. 4, 2020 by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and…