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Landlords lose latest challenge to CDC eviction freeze

July 14, 2021
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid by a group of landlords seeking to overturn the Centers for Disease Control’s nationwide freeze on many residential evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full articleTweetShareShare0 Shares
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Federal appeals court leaves evictions moratorium in place, a blow to landlords

July 14, 2021
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the federal government’s ban on evicting tenants can remain in place over protest from mom-and-pop landlords. A group of landlords had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to halt the eviction moratorium, saying it is unconstitutional and an overreach by the federal government. Read…
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For Smaller Landlords, Rent Moratoriums Just Pass The Payment Buck Up The Chain

July 13, 2021
Keep living in an apartment without paying rent? In the “before times,” it would have been unthinkable — at least without a concerted legal battle with an angry landlord. During the COVID-19 pandemic, though, all that went out the window. Congress first put an eviction moratorium into place from March 27 to July 24, 2020,…
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IRS Crypto Exchange Data Suit Wrongly Tossed, 1st Circ. Told

July 12, 2021
A New Hampshire federal court wrongly found that a man’s efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining his records from cryptocurrency platforms would unlawfully restrain the collection of tax, he told the First Circuit. James Harper’s suit requesting the IRS expunge his financial records that it obtained from unknown cryptocurrency exchanges violates neither…
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NCLA Files Appeal Against the IRS — Law Firm Claims Tax Agency Unlawfully Seizes Crypto Data of Thousands

July 10, 2021
On Friday, the public interest law firm New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an opening brief in the cryptocurrency case of James Harper v. Charles P. Rettig. The NCLA argues that Harper’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment constitutional rights were violated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The U.S. tax agency is accused of obtaining Harper’s…
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FDA ends up on losing side of Rotenberg case in DC circuit court

July 7, 2021
The FDA’s attempts to thwart the use of electrostimulation devices for self-injurious and aggressive behavior came up short in an appeals court hearing of Rotenberg v. FDA, largely because the FDA’s approach suggested the agency would control the practice of medicine. Published by BioWorld TweetShareShare0 Shares
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