Landlords Lack Standing To Challenge an Amended Version of the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (CEEFPA) Extending New York's COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium—Court Found Landlords' Arguments To Be "Mistaken, Contradicted By…Evidence and, in Some Instances, Simply False"—by Not Pursuing Hardship Applications, Landlords' Injury Was "Self-Imposed" and Not "Fairly Traceable" to the Defendant

The plaintiff landlords sought a preliminary injunction to enjoin implementation of New York's COVID-19 eviction moratorium. This was the "second such application" in the subject case. The subject motion sought injunctive relief as to an amended version of the (CEEFPA). That amendment extended the eviction moratorium and included changes "intended to address a determination of the United States Supreme Court that an earlier provision violated the Due Process clause of the United States of Constitution."

The amended statue provided procedures for landlords to challenge "hardship declarations" filed by tenants and permitted landlords to seek "judicial relief notwithstanding the filing of such declaration."