The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued another ban on evictions Tuesday, but not before a small window of time elapsed in which landlords and property owners could pursue final judgments.
The latest 60-day moratorium extension applies to counties with "high or substantial" levels of COVID-19 transmission. That includes Florida, where the CDC said cases are "rapidly increasing, which would likely be exacerbated by mass evictions."
It's a development that has generated confusion, leading attorneys such as David Winker in Coral Gables to wonder: what happens to courts that have a backlog of eviction and foreclosure cases, and what next for tenants and homeowners hit with final judgments on evictions this week?
|'So many things wrong'
For one of Winker's clients, their eviction order will stand since nothing actually prevented the judge from issuing it at the time.
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