Landlords Lose Challenge to Eviction Ban at 11th Circuit A landlord’s inability to collect rent from an insolvent tenant during the pandemic does not constitute irreparable injury, an appellate panel found. Signs reading “No Job No Rent” hang from the windows of an apartment building in Northwest Washington, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ATLANTA (CN) – An effort by a national landlord group to strike down the federal directive halting residential evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic was rebuffed Wednesday by a divided 11th Circuit panel, which ruled that the landlords failed to show they would suffer irreparable harm if they remained unable to evict delinquent tenants.