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A federal judge scrapped a nationwide moratorium on evictions, saying the CDC went beyond its authority

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A US federal judge on Wednesday blocked an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent landlords from evicting their tenants during the coronavirus pandemic.

“The CDC order must be set aside,” US District Judge Dabney Friedrich said in a 20-page ruling.

The order was initially announced on September 4 to take effect for the rest of 2020. President Joe Biden on his first day in office extended the order through June 30 to aid struggling tenants through the pandemic’s financial fallout.

Friedrich wrote that the ban was among “difficult policy decisions that details ⇒

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