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One of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s most important acts in office was
his genuinely swamp-clearing 2017 reversal of a corrupt Obama administration practice at the Department of Justice. Sessions forbade the department from reaching settlements with deep-pocketed defendants that involved cash payments, not to taxpayers or victims, but to third parties in practice, often to left-wing social justice organizations. When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people, Sessions said, “not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power.”
Landlords Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet as CDC Extends Eviction Ban
Any landlord who fails to comply with the CDC’s policy can be slapped with fines up to $200,000 and could face criminal prosecution.
Monday, February 1, 2021
With so many Americans out of work and unable to pay their rent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instituted a nationwide eviction ban on residential rental properties.
With the moratorium originally set to expire on January 31, newly elected President Joe Biden, on his first day in office, signed an executive order prolonging the eviction ban until at least the end of March.
Los Angeles County Sued Over Commercial Eviction Moratorium
A small landlord suffering economic hardship is suing the county of Los Angeles over its pandemic-related moratorium preventing the eviction of commercial tenants for nonpayment of rent.
The lawsuit, Iten v. County of Los Angeles, which was filed Jan. 19 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleges the county is violating the contracts clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Former Marine and Vietnam veteran Howard Iten is a retired auto mechanic who depends on rental income from his sole commercial property, which is located in the City of Lawndale in Los Angeles County.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all of our lives. But few in North Carolina can argue that they’ve taken as big a hit as owners and operators of private bars.
A court filing this month makes clear that these businesses have faced special damage at the hands of an unsympathetic governor.
The filing in
Waldron v. Cooper tells the clear story of more than 10 months of discrimination against one type of business.
“And while Governor [Roy] Cooper has called this a ‘dimmer switch’ approach, in reality, it threatens to turn the lights off on many private bars for good,” according to the Jan. 15 document authored by attorney Jessica Thompson.
Housing groups and think tanks have filed legal documents supporting the owners of New York’s rent stabilized apartments in their fight against 2019 rent laws they believe are unconstitutional.
The so-called amicus briefs back the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) and the Rent Stabilization Association in their federal lawsuit against the City of New York.
The lawsuit, filed in July 2019 and currently on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, challenges regulations the owners believe have harmed owners and tenants and constrained the city’s housing market for over five decades.
The legal challenge, filed against the City and State in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, asserts that the RSL violates the Due Process and Takings protections of the United States Constitution, depriving property owners of their constitutional rights. It was dismissed by the District Court in September 2020 on the ground that Second Circ