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When she fell behind on rent, she completed the CDC declaration required to qualify for the federal eviction moratorium. Still, a judge allowed for the eviction to move forward following state guidance from the Texas Justice Court Training Center that said courts didn’t have to uphold the federal moratorium. It's guidance that came as many tenants, as well as landlords, awaited delayed relief. "You can have all the plans and all the backup plans in the world. But when life happens and those plans go away, you're back at square one,” said Alexys Hatcher. That's where the Salvation Army cam...
Court documents show Hatcher’s landlord first filed a petition for her eviction in December. But in March, she filed a CDC declaration required to qualify for the federal eviction moratorium she thought would be her safety net. She’d also applied for rent assistance. Still, this week a judge allowed for the eviction to move forward. It’s a decision that came just days after the Texas Justice Court Training Center released new guidance for justice of the peace courts: “Nothing in the text of the [federal] moratorium itself specifically directs or forbids courts to take action.” "It w...