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Professor Terry Comments on Eviction Moratorium
05/10/2021
On May 6, a federal judge ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not legally allowed to issue a nationwide eviction moratorium.
U.S. District of Columbia Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote the 20-page order. In an interview with The Statehouse File, IU McKinney Professor Nicolas Terry said that he believes the CDC stepped up to protect tenants at risk of eviction when Congress and state governments would not.
“Well, if you believe that we have an eviction crisis, which all evidence suggests we do,” Terry said, “what you would hope is that someone in government would try and solve that crisis … So the question is, who’s going to do it? And during the Trump administration, the CDC stepped in issuing this regulation.”
Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at IU McKinney, where he teaches healthcare and health policy courses. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, mobile health, the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, and the opioid overdose epidemic.
He is one of the permanent bloggers at the Bill of Health blog and is a host of “The Week in Health Law” podcast at TWIHL.com. He is @nicolasterry on twitter.
