“This was the most important brief I ever filed in my career, and I was given 24 hours to draft and file it”
Josh Kahane, a frum attorney in Memphis, Tennessee, who is as dedicated to the community kollel he established with his wife as he is to his legal practice, is the only person in the country who can say that he beat the eviction freeze put in place by — of all federal agencies — the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
“One thing that was glaringly omitted from your article,” wrote Kahane, “was the victorious lawsuit that I filed on behalf of more than 5,000 landlords against the US government, wherein I defeated the CDC’s eviction moratorium and had it struck down as unlawful and unenforceable.”
The case so far only effects landlords in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ jurisdiction: the states of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. But it is now on its way to the US Supreme Court.
Kahane is a litigation attorney at Memphis’s Glankler Brown law firm, but a significant portion of his clients live in New York and New Jersey and own rental property in the southeastern United States. They have been hit hard by the CDC’s near-total eviction freeze, which did not take into account at all the financial impacts on landlords. Most tenants have been paying their rent, but a growing number have taken unfair advantage of the government’s one-sided order, leaving landlords in the lurch.
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