From Reuters.com…
Landlord groups late Wednesday asked a U.S. judge in Washington to immediately lift a new eviction moratorium that was put in place Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), saying the new order was “unlawful”.
The Alabama Association of Realtors and others said in an emergency filing the CDC issued the new order “for nakedly political reasons – to ease the political pressure, shift the blame to the courts for ending the moratorium, and use litigation delays to achieve a policy objective.”
The groups won a ruling from U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in May declaring that the CDC’s eviction ban was unlawful, but an appeals court blocked an effort by the Alabama landlord group and others to enforce the decision.
In June, a divided Supreme Court agreed to let the CDC moratorium remain in effect after the CDC announced it would allow the ban to expire on July 31.
