Contracts Clause

Ninth Circuit agrees with GMSR that LA County’s COVID-19 commercial eviction moratorium did not violate the Contracts Clause

A commercial landlord sued the County of Los Angeles claiming that the County’s commercial eviction moratorium imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic violated the Contracts Clause in the U.S. Constitution.  Although other COVID-19 eviction moratoria cases have asserted Contracts Clause challenges, this one was fairly unique: 

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