Numerous struggling tenants have been spared since a national eviction moratorium took effect Sept. 4. Now a group of landlords, including the most aggressive filer of evictions in Akron during this pandemic, is fighting to get rid of it. Federal lawsuits filed in Georgia and Ohio are the first of more to come as landlords seek to overturn an order by the Centers…

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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given Michelle Cochran one more chance to block the Securities and Exchange Commission from pushing ahead with an administrative proceeding against her. Cochran, a certified public accountant from Texas, has already been through one administrative proceeding before an SEC judge. In 2017, Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot…

The National Association of Home Builders has filed a complaint against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over its eviction moratorium order. In partnership with Pacific Legal Foundation, the NAHB – along with Skyworks Ltd, Cedarwood Village, and Monarch Investment and Management Group – filed the complaint in the Northern District of Ohio.…

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…