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A state appeals court has backed Gov. Phil Murphy in a lawsuit challenging his executive powers during the pandemic.
An appeals court on Tuesday defended Gov. Phil Murphy’s use of an executive order to allow tenants hit by the COVID-19 pandemic to use their security deposits to help pay rent.
The appellate judges rejected an appeal by five landlords and three businesses who argued that the order, issued last April, exceeded Murphy’s authority and violated their constitutional rights.
The court determined that Murphy was authorized under state law to exercise emergency powers such as allowing security deposits to be used as rent in his efforts to protect public health during the pandemic. And it dismissed the claims that the order violated several amendments to the state Constitution.
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The nearly 57,000 eviction cases filed in New Jersey since the pandemic began 17 months ago are about to be heard and now tenant advocates are concerned that the courts may be moving too fast and using a process that could lead to more evictions.
Last week, the state Supreme Court issued procedures to be used beginning Sept. 1 to settle the mountain of cases that have piled up during the eviction moratorium in effect since March 2020.
The procedures, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote in his order that created them, “uphold and balance the rights and responsibilities of both landlords and tenants.” The procedures adopt many of the recommendations from a special committee on landlord-tenant matters.
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Thea Gleason juggles jobs to support her family of four in Little Egg Harbor, supplementing her salary as a high school English teacher with a second job at a storage facility.
She usually waitresses as well, but that gig fell through when the COVID pandemic hit, reducing her income. So her family applied to their lender
for mortgage forbearance. It was granted, and allowed them to put off payments for a year, through the end of this month. “So we could buy food instead,” Gleason said.
Gleason, 47, recently received a letter from her mortgage lender that said the company would “work with her,” and provided instructions to apply for additional mortgage assistance.
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