The New Civil Liberties Alliance (the “Alliance”), a non-profit civil liberties legal interest group based in Washington, petitioned a federal judge in the Northern District of Georgia to block the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’ (the “CDC”) moratorium on evictions that is currently set to expire on December 31, 2020, but may possibly be extended if the pandemic continues. Lawyers on both sides made their arguments in a Zoom hearing this week. Caleb Kruckenberg, counsel for the Alliance, is claiming that his clients are being deprived of their Constitutional right to take possession of their own property as a result of the federal moratorium.

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