Judith Goldiner, Ellen Davidson, and Amber Marshall – attorneys at The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Housing practice – submitted an amicus brief in support of the effort to push back against landlords seeking to overturn statewide pandemic-related eviction protections in federal court, as reported by Law360.

The defendants – represented by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Assistant Attorney General Lori L. Pack – assert that the plaintiffs are inappropriately asking a federal court to interfere in state court matters. The group of defendants – which includes Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks and officials tasked with adjudicating eviction proceedings in various counties – argued that the landlords’ claims that an anti-eviction law is unconstitutional must be dismissed.