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TALLAHASSEE - A major Florida real-estate group is challenging a federal moratorium on evicting renters during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group Florida Realtors filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Tampa that described the moratorium imposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “an unprecedented and unlawful federal administrative order.”
The lawsuit contends that the CDC overstepped its legal authority in imposing the moratorium, which is scheduled to expire June 30.
“The CDC predicates this unprecedented action on its statutory authority to prevent the interstate spread of disease, but that authority does not make the CDC the nation’s landlord-in-chief any more than it places the CDC in charge of citizens’ social media or the national minimum wage,” the lawsuit said.