The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked New York’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium, finding in a divided ruling that the provision violated the landlords’ right to due process.

A group of small landlords, represented by Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, sued Lawrence K. Marks, the chief administrative judge of the New York state court system, in May, arguing that the eviction moratorium “trampled” on the plaintiffs’ rights by granting tenants “carte blanche to overstay the expiration of their leases.”