August 13, 2021
A D.C. federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by real estate agents and landlords to vacate the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new residential eviction moratorium, but she questioned the measure's legality and whether it can survive challenges at the appellate level.
August 06, 2021
The Biden administration on Friday defended its new residential eviction ban as a measure to help contain the highly contagious delta variant and urged a D.C. federal judge to keep it in place because the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet directly resolved the government's authority to issue a moratorium.
August 05, 2021
A D.C. federal judge on Thursday gave the Biden administration one day to respond to a group of real estate agents and property owners' emergency request to immediately vacate the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new eviction moratorium issued earlier this week.
July 02, 2021
A pair of WeWork lawsuits as well as multiple challenges to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's moratorium on evictions are among the cases real estate lawyers will be watching in the second half of 2021.
May 19, 2021
The Biden administration fired back at a group of landlords looking to block the nationwide eviction ban, telling a D.C. federal judge Wednesday that the government's new guidance on mask-wearing doesn't warrant vacating a recent order pausing the property owners' earlier win.
May 18, 2021
A group of landlords challenging the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's nationwide moratorium on evictions urged the D.C. Circuit late Monday to vacate a lower court ruling pausing their earlier win.
May 05, 2021
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday vacated the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's nationwide moratorium on evictions that aims to protect renters facing hardship in the wake of the pandemic, ruling the agency exceeded its statutory authority.
April 29, 2021
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had a hard time convincing the D.C. federal judge tasked with overseeing a challenge to its eviction moratorium that Congress intended to give the public health agency that much power.