The Biden administration is calling on law firms and law schools to help fight evictions following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to remove protections created by the federal government in response to the pandemic.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday urged members of the legal community to take immediate action to help address the “looming housing and eviction crisis,” according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg Law.
Last week, a divided U.S. lifted the administration’s moratorium on evictions, which had provided protection for millions who have fallen behind on their rent during the coronavirus pandemic. The court said that U.S. Center for Disease Control lacked the authority to impose the moratorium, which the justices said was causing landlords “irreparable harm.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that so far more 40 major law school deans have committed their students and law clinics to the endeavor, including those at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Howard University, UCLA Legal Services Corp, as well as the American Bar Association and the National Housing Law Project.
“As federal and local eviction moratoriums expire around the country, eviction filings are expected to spike to roughly double their pre-pandemic levels,” Garland wrote. He said that more than 6 million American...
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