District of Columbia v. Towers (2021)

Citation: District of Columbia v. Towers (2021)
Parent Document: District of Columbia v. Towers (2021)
Jurisdiction: DC (municipal)
Effective Date: 2021-05-13
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4882760/district-of-columbia-v-towers/ ↗

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as to when that will happen, the statutory premise is that it will happen in the
foreseeable future . . . .” Sharps, 2021 WL 922468, at *10.
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          In addition to the District, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois,
Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington currently have
filing moratoriums in place. See Covid-19 Housing Policy Scorecard, Eviction Lab,
Princeton         University,        https://evictionlab.org/covid-policy-scorecard/
https://perma.cc/8AGD-KXUF (last visited May 6, 2021). Massachusetts had a
filing moratorium that expired on October 17, 2020. Expiration of Moratorium on
Evictions and Foreclosures, https://www.mass.gov/info-details/expiration-of-
moratorium-on-evictions-and-foreclosures https://perma.cc/795C-QF27 (last visited
May 6, 2021). Several localities also imposed notice and filing moratoriums at the
beginning of the pandemic that have since been lifted. See Preliminary Analysis:
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ground that it violates the right of access to the courts stands alone. By contrast, at
least two other federal trial courts have determined that such a constitutional
challenge is meritless or unlikely to succeed. See, e.g., Baptiste v. Kennealy, 490 F.
Supp. 3d 353, 393–94 (D. Mass. 2020); Elmsford Apartment Assocs., LLC v. Cuomo,
469 F. Supp. 3d 148, 174 (S.D.N.Y. 2020).

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