08/27/2021

SCOTUS Ends CDC's Pandemic Residential Eviction Moratorium

The three liberal justices on the court all dissented

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ended the coronavirus pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions imposed by President Joe Biden's administration in a challenge to the policy brought by a coalition of landlords and real estate trade groups.

The justices, who in June had left in place a prior ban that expired at the end of July, granted a request by the challengers to lift the moratorium by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that was to have run until Oct. 3.

The challengers argued the law on which the CDC relied did not allow it to implement the current ban.

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