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Glankler Brown Announces Tennessee Property Owners Prevail In Landmark Case Against Federal Government
March 16, 2021 GMT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 16, 2021
U.S. District Judge Mark S. Norris ruled Monday afternoon in favor of the property owners and managers who brought a lawsuit against the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Department of Housing and Urban Development, finding that the national eviction moratorium which has prevented residential evictions since September 2020, is unlawful and exceeds the authority delegated to the CDC under the federal Public Health Service Act. Judge Norris struck down the eviction moratorium and declared it unenforceable. In issuing his 20-page Order, Judge Norris stated that “[t]o hold otherwise would be to construe the statute so broadly as to grant this administrative agency