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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on August 13, 2021, 04:07:45 pm
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Once burned: SCOTUS overturns part of New York's eviction moratorium
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/08/13/once-burned-scotus-overturns-part-of-new-yorks-eviction-moratorium-n408599 (https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/08/13/once-burned-scotus-overturns-part-of-new-yorks-eviction-moratorium-n408599)
It doesn’t exactly set a precedent, but it might demonstrate that the Supreme Court learned a lesson. In June, the court allowed an eviction moratorium to remain in place even though the CDC had no authority to impose it, reasoning that it would expire in 32 days anyway. That argument didn’t fly last night with New York’s eviction moratorium, as the court struck down a state rule that would have expired at the end of the month.
The rule allowed tenants to self-certify as suffering economic hardship to stop paying rent. That’s nonsense, the court ruled in a 6-3 split: