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No Evictions in NYC For The Holidays!

div class="MsoNormal"Those tenants struggling to make ends meet can take a deep breath ? the ?Eviction Moratorium? has begun in st1:city w:st="on"st1:place w:st="on"New York City/st1:place/st1:city.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"nbsp; /spanEach year, around Christmas, the NYC Marshals (who enforce evictions in the city) take a two week vacation, and evictions cease.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"nbsp; /spanThe origin of the traditional Christmas break is unknown.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"nbsp; /spanJudge Jaya Madhavan, a Bronx Houseing Court Judge, calls it ?a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyevict1222,0,6596288.story"one of those myths that take on the force of law/a.?/divdiv class="MsoNormal"/divdiv class="MsoNormal"However, this informal policy has been found unconstitutional in other cities.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"nbsp; /spanFor example, in st1:place w:st="on"st1:city w:st="on"Milwaukee/st1:city/st1:place, the ACLU sued the Milwaukee County Circuit Court to abandon the policy a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:2V7fNG7ZgDMJ:money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/10/76039/index.htm+milwaukee+eviction+%22church+and+state%22amp;hl=enamp;ct=clnkamp;cd=3amp;gl=us"saying/a, ?No similar rules prevent the eviction of Muslin tenants during Ramadan or Jewish tenants during Passover.? nbsp;The 2008 moratorium in NYC began on Sunday./divdiv class="MsoNormal"/divdiv class="MsoNormal"Source: a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/nyregion/22evict.html?em"NY Times /aspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;"nbsp;/span/div pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=sz8Hu7"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=sz8Hu7" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=fHEIO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=fHEIO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=ySn9o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=ySn9o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=Fy6qO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=Fy6qO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=UZdbo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=UZdbo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=CtNGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=CtNGO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=aJQno"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=aJQno" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=p7FOO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=p7FOO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=Kexvo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=Kexvo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch/~4/492602137" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Fastcase Legal News on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).