The CDC’s national eviction moratorium remains in effect, after the U.S. Department of Justice appealed a federal judge’s ruling calling it illegal.
Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of Washington, D.C., agreed to put her ruling on hold until at least May 12. Friedrich emphasized the delay was granted to give landlord groups and the federal government time to file legal papers for the appeal process, not based on the merits of the Justice Department’s argument.
In her 20-page ruling, Friedrich said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority when it issued the eviction moratorium last September and that it “must be set aside.”
