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SCOTUS KILLS CDC EVICTION MORATORIUM

On August 26, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), in a 6 – 3 decision, rejected the Biden administration’s latest moratorium on evictions. Alabama Association of Realtors et al, v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. The decision puts hundreds of thousands of tenants at risk of losing shelter. As discussed in our recent blog article, on August 3, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a […]

SCOTUS SEXUAL ORIENTATION DECISION

On June 15, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), in Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia (Bostock) ruled that firing an employee for being homosexual or transgender constitutes discrimination based on the employee’s sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Bostock is an employment case in which SCOTUS determined that disparate treatment of  homosexual or transgender individuals is sex discrimination. Both the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and the Fair Housing Act […]