In an effort to curtail the COVID-19 health crisis, the Centers for Disease Control issued an order on Sept. 4, 2020, halting the eviction of any covered person from residential property in jurisdictions covered by that order. Unfortunately, the order's guidance stops there, leaving practitioners to navigate disparate treatment from jurisdiction to jurisdiction (sometimes within the same jurisdiction) and leaving landlords and tenants alike to plead with courts for varying degrees of relief. While this commentary is not an exhaustive discussion of this order's varying interpretations, it aims to highlight areas of uncertainty that have arisen since its inception and how the legal community has responded in practice.