Health your username 2 hours ago The United States agency defendants in one case challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium filed an appellee brief in the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday, arguing that the Western District of Louisiana did not abuse its discretion in denying a landlords’ request for a preliminary injunction to allow evictions to continue. The district court on Dec. 22 denied the injunction request by plaintiffs Chambless Enterprises LLC and Apartment Association of Louisiana Inc. and, on Monday, granted a motion to stay that denial by the defendants — CDC officials Rochelle Walensky and Sherri Berger, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and both the CDC and HHS — pending the plaintiffs’ appeal in the Fifth Circuit.