{"id":641033,"date":"2021-08-13T13:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641033"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:36:40","slug":"supreme-court-blocks-new-york-eviction-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-blocks-new-york-eviction-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Blocks New York Eviction Moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-blocks-new-york-eviction-moratorium%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641033&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.406417112299\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Says ban deprives landlords without due process<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Supreme-Court.jpg 735w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Supreme-Court-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Supreme-Court-702x491.jpg 702w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Supreme Court \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 August 13, 2021 1:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"125.84028683181\">\n<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday night blocked part of New York state\u2019s COVID-19-related eviction moratorium at the behest of a group of landlords who say they cannot sustain its fiscal toll.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement, the High Court said the moratorium appeared to deprive the landlords of their property without due process. The Court\u2019s statement was unsigned and did not include a vote count, as is typical of such matters, but Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan noted their dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency appeal highlighted the ongoing strain landlords face even as much of the nation returns to a pre-pandemic state of affairs. Lawyers for the landlords described them as &#8220;small scale property owners&#8221; in court filings and emphasized that the moratorium has left them in dire financial straits.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the applicant landlords are Mudan Shi and Feng Zhou, a married couple who rent the single-family house they own on Staten Island. Income from that property helps cover rent for the leased home they occupy with their children and elderly parents. Their Staten Island tenants have not paid rent since 2019 because of a dispute that is not COVID-related. Shi and Zhou can no longer afford their lease. Another landlord, Betty Cohen, is a retiree whose income consists of Social Security benefits and the rent she collects off a single co-op unit in Brooklyn. Cohen\u2019s tenant stopped paying rent in March 2020 and owes her almost $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night\u2019s decision will not necessarily result in the eviction of their tenants. It would merely allow them to make a case for eviction to a housing court, which may or may not succeed. Absent that opportunity, lawyers for the landlords argued the moratorium deprives them of their property without due process, a violation of the Constitution. Under the New York scheme, a tenant\u2019s declaration of COVID-related hardships on a state form delayed eviction proceedings until the moratorium expires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The owner\u2019s hands are completely tied: Tenants are not required to submit any proof of their claimed hardships, and applicants and other property owners are given no opportunity to present contrary evidence,&#8221; the application reads.<\/p>\n<p>For example, landlord Brandie LaCasse owns a single-family house in Rhinebeck, N.Y., occupied by tenants who are withholding rent. The tenants claim they aren\u2019t paying because of a child care hardship. LaCasse and her lawyers have evidence that explanation is untrue, but the moratorium makes the claim unrebuttable. In the meantime, the property is falling into disrepair due to the tenants\u2019 poor stewardship, exacerbating the financial damage, LaCasse\u2019s lawyers wrote in court filings. LaCasse herself is living with an ex-fianc\u00e9e who wants her to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to leave where I\u2019m currently staying. My ex wants me out of the house, and I don\u2019t really have anywhere to go and I\u2019m trying to get my house back,&#8221; she testified at an emergency hearing in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Court credited those arguments in a short statement about the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This scheme violates the Court\u2019s longstanding teaching that ordinarily \u2018no man can be a judge in his own case\u2019 consistent with the due process clause,&#8221; the order reads.<\/p>\n<p>In dissent, Breyer argued the Court should grant such &#8220;drastic relief&#8221; only if it was &#8220;indisputably clear&#8221; that the moratorium is unconstitutional. He also noted it is set to expire on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New York Legislature is responsible for responding to a grave and unpredictable public health crisis. It must combat the spread of a virulent disease, mitigate the financial suffering caused by business closures, and minimize the number of unnecessary evictions,&#8221; Breyer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The legislature does not enjoy unlimited discretion in formulating that response, but in this case I would not second guess politically accountable officials\u2019 determination of how best to guard and protect the people of New York,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A 5-4 Court in June refused to suspend the federal eviction moratorium. The New York landlords said their case is different because they have identified the specific and significant monetary harms they have incurred, while the landlords in the June case &#8220;made only conclusory reference to general financial harms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The practical effect of Thursday night\u2019s decision isn\u2019t clear because the federal moratorium remains in place. And the Court itself noted that New York state has a second law that directs judges to consider COVID-related hardships in eviction proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The case is No. 21A8 <em>Chrysafis<\/em> v. <em>Marks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Says ban deprives landlords without due process  The Supreme Court \/ Getty Images  Kevin Daley \u2022 August 13, 2021 1:25 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}