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Eviction Update: SCOTUS Strikes Down CDC Moratorium

access_time Posted on: August 27th, 2021

On August 26, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curiam decision stating that the statute on which the Center for Disease Control relied to issue a moratorium on residential evictions does not grant the CDC the authority that it claims. The court went on to state that it would be a different matter “if Congress had specifically authorized the action that the CDC has taken.”  Instead, the Court stated, the CDC imposed a nationwide eviction moratorium while claiming authority under an old statute which allowed the CDC to implement pest extermination and fumigation. After a… read more »