U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert of the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday dismissed a challenge advanced by a group of small New York landlords to the state’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium law, finding that the defendant in the case, state Attorney General Letitia James, is not a proper party to the action.
U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert.Seybert issued her ruling just two days after the case was reassigned to her court as a result of the death of her colleague, U.S. District Judge Sandra Feuerstein, in a Florida hit-and-run crash April 9.