An eviction The nearly 57,000 eviction cases filed in New Jersey since the pandemic began 17 months ago are about to be heard and now tenant advocates are concerned that the courts may be moving too fast and using a process that could lead to more evictions. Last week, the state Supreme Court issued procedures to be used beginning Sept. 1 to settle the mountain of cases that have piled up during the eviction moratorium in effect since March 2020. The procedures, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote in his order that created them, “uphold and balance the rights and responsibilities of both landlords and tenants.” The procedures adopt many of the recommendations from a special committee on landlord-tenant matters.