Landlords Lose Challenge to Federal Ban on Evictions
October 30, 2020
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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention barring landlords from evicting tenants for failure to pay rent during the Covid-19 pandemic was within the agency’s regulatory authority.
