Affordable housing, LGBTQ rights and pediatric health are among the issues that have emerged in a federal lawsuit in Atlanta that pits landlords of millions of rental homes against the CDC’s efforts to prevent evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The landlords’ effort to overturn the moratorium is not surprising. The support for the moratorium brings…

The Fifth Circuit on Friday granted a full-panel review of an accountant’s challenge to the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s administrative law judges. The appellate court said in an order that a “majority of the circuit judges in regular active service” had voted in favor of rehearing the case brought by Michelle Helterbran…

 Landlords are fuming after a federal judge upheld a nationwide order temporarily preventing them from evicting residential tenants through the end of the year to help control the spread of the coronavirus. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee, a Donald Trump appointee based in Atlanta, issued a 66-page order Thursday finding that a Sept. 4 directive from the…

A federal judge ruled against landlord groups who were seeking to block the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s national moratorium on evictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee in Atlanta on Thursday rejected a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by a nonprofit called the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf…

Governor Roy Cooper has signed a new executive order to prevent evictions of North Carolinians who can’t afford their rent. But many property owners and landlords say it leaves them out to dry. In the order issued Wednesday, Governor Roy Cooper says an estimated 300,000 – 400,000 households in North Carolina are currently unable to pay rent.…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has come under increased scrutiny since the outbreak of COVID-19. For years, many have warned of the risks of the agency’s changing priorities and scope. With the outbreak of COVID-19, the costs of CDC’s mission creep are clear. With only 4 percent of its $7.3 billion annual…