Health your username May 6, 2021 The nationwide eviction moratorium — for now — will remain in place after the federal District of Columbia judge who ruled Wednesday to vacate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) order granted a stay of her own judgment. In a minute order, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia District Court granted a temporary administrative pause of her judgment to the United States agency defendants after they moved for an emergency stay pending appeal of the vacatur. The plaintiffs have about a week to file an opposition, according to the order. Although the moratorium — originally ordered by the CDC in September 2020, extended most recently until June 30 — remains unperturbed by way of the stay, Friedrich adjudged in her opinion on the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment that the CDC overstepped its statutory authority in its nationwide order to ban evictions in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19. If the defendants, which include the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), lose on appeal, evictions could again resume.