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BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifts the federal eviction moratorium. In an unsigned 8-page opinion (with the three liberals dissenting), SCOTUS sides with a group of landlords who argued that the CDC lacked the authority to bar evictions during the pandemic. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf
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Amy Howe
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Over dissent by 3 justices, #SCOTUS grants request to lift federal moratorium on evictions. "If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue," ct. writes, "Congress must specifically authorize it." Full opinion (& dissent) here: supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf
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The majority says that the CDC, in barring evictions, relied on "a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like fumigation and pest extermination." "It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts."
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This is the second time the eviction moratorium has been at SCOTUS this summer. In June, the court allowed the prior version of the moratorium to remain in place through July. But on Aug. 3, the CDC renewed it for two additional months, and this time SCOTUS decides to halt it.
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