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Louisiana landlords sue over CDC eviction moratorium
PBS ^ | Nov 16, 2020 7:56 PM EST

Posted on 11/17/2020 7:38:24 AM PST by deport

Nov 16, 2020 7:56 PM EST MONROE, La. — Louisiana landlords have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn a moratorium on evictions ordered by the CDC to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.

The suit says that “the CDC’s eviction moratorium represents a sweeping assumption of power by an administrative agency that it simply does not possess.”

Figures provided by the Seattle-based Housing Justice Project says landlords in Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee have filed similar lawsuits against the CDC moratorium. Those in 13 other states and the District of Columbia are trying to overturn state or city eviction moratoriums.

The CDC’s Sept. 1 order came about three weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order telling federal health officials to consider measures to temporarily halt evictions.

(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: evictions; renters

Safe Harboring during the pandemic

1 posted on 11/17/2020 7:38:24 AM PST by deport
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To: deport

These will all end very soon anyway. COVID is cured, thanks to King Joe and KamelToe.


2 posted on 11/17/2020 7:42:57 AM PST by montag813
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To: deport

I am a landlord. The problem with non paying tenants is usually drug related. The longer they remain the more horrific the damage. I had one where the power got cut off for non payment. That meant no water. They dedicated one bedroom as the toilet. I had to clean every bit of it myself as none of the people I usually use would even walk in the front door.


3 posted on 11/17/2020 7:46:17 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: deport

I have 1 non-paying tenant for 4 months. I solved that problem by not offering a new lease since it was coming due. Gave no details. No need to.


4 posted on 11/17/2020 7:47:12 AM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Gen.Blather

I have 1 Chicago transplant trying to game the Arizona gov’t for rental re-imbursement, claiming she has been sick with COVID for 4 months. I didn’t re-new her lease.


5 posted on 11/17/2020 7:48:20 AM PST by AlmaKing
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To: deport

As I have known, the government does not have the right to invalidate a valid, legal contract, before or after the contract is executed.
It does not have the right to force someone to provide a service or to turn over property, even for compensation, and certainly not when there is no compensation.


6 posted on 11/17/2020 7:53:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Social media are the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Wholly owned subsidiaries. )
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To: I want the USA back

But but it is patriotic to go broke while the elite make millions.


7 posted on 11/17/2020 7:56:32 AM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party )
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To: I want the USA back

As I have known, the government does not have the right to invalidate a valid, legal contract, before or after the contract is executed. It does not have the right to force someone to provide a service or to turn over property, even for compensation, and certainly not when there is no compensation.

I'm sure the U.S. Constitution provides for unelected bureaucrats forcing landlords go bankrupt and give free housing during times of disease.

Gotta be in there somewhere.

8 posted on 11/17/2020 7:58:16 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: deport

I think landlords are taking it worse than most anyone during this pandemic crud.


9 posted on 11/17/2020 7:59:33 AM PST by Irenic
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To: deport

The eviction mandates make landlords into slaves to the renters. That aspect alone should be enough to overturn such mandates.


10 posted on 11/17/2020 8:27:05 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh

Amen to that.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 8:48:28 AM PST by Revel
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To: aimhigh

we got trapped with these laws briefly in RED EAST TX...but the kicker was we went over there and hung out on the property when tenant was not expecting such a strategy from us. We had written into the lease FULL LANDLORD ACCESS (as we were remodeling the house)...he left after about 3 hours.


12 posted on 11/17/2020 8:52:28 AM PST by magna carta (TX all you have to do is send an email to principal with a witness included on the communication.)
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To: AAABEST

Oh those pesky penumbras.


13 posted on 11/17/2020 8:54:05 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: I want the USA back

As I have known, the government does not have the right to invalidate a valid, legal contract, before or after the contract is executed.

That's pretty much what the government did with GM during the bailout. So sit down peasant and listen to those who know best. >/sarcasm

14 posted on 11/17/2020 10:02:55 AM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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