Last month the US District Court for the District of Columbia joined several other federal courts in ruling that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium exceeded the agency's authority. This week the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to leave a federal prohibition on evictions intact. The issue may now go before the Supreme Court.
For this and other reasons, landlords may not want to start eviction proceedings even though the moratorium is set to expire at the end of June.
"I am advising my clients that they need to still be in a holding pattern if the sole basis for an eviction is failure to pay rent," says Bonnie Y. Hochman Rothell, partner and chair of the Litigation practice at Morris, Manning & Martin LLP.
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Leslie Shaver
Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.
