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…

A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday declared that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s moratorium on eviction — a key element of the federal government’s efforts to aid those hit hardest by the Covid pandemic and its economic effects — must be set aside. The ruling from Judge Dabney Friedrich says the Public…

A federal rule that took effect yesterday requires that anyone attempting to collect unpaid rent tell tenants they may be protected by the residential eviction moratorium that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) imposed in September. Yet federal courts have repeatedly held that the moratorium, which the CDC recently extended through June 30, is invalid because it…

A group of landlords is suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a new disclosure rule that aims to inform tenants of their protections from eviction during the COVID-19 outbreak, claiming that the rule violates the landlords’ First Amendment rights by requiring them to lie. The CFPB’s new interim final rule, effective Monday, requires that debt collectors and attorneys…

Newly passed legislation that would allow Wyoming bison and cattle ranchers to use any method of state-approved livestock identification — rather than federally mandated eartags — could soon be challenged by federal policy. The policy may erode a recent victory by Wyoming’s ranching industry that earned them more autonomy over tracking their animals, and industry…

A rental property manager in Tennessee has sued to block a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule requiring notice be given to delinquent residential renters about a nationwide eviction ban, saying it runs counter to rulings finding the ban invalid. The Property Management Connection (PMC) and others filed the lawsuit in Nashville federal court on…