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Justin Ortega is a Senior Associate in McCalla Raymer Liebert Pierce’s Eviction group. Ortega focuses his practice primarily on the representation of financial institutions, investors and homeowners in eviction, landlord/tenant matters, and code violation cases. In addition, Ortega has previous experience in the practice area of residential closings, REO closings, and foreclosure. Ortega graduated with a Bachelors Degree in History from the University of Florida in 2006 and received his Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law School, 2010. Ortega is a licensed attorney in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, and New Jersey.
The Mid-Pandemic Battle of Legal Interpretation
Centers for Disease Control Eviction Order and Constitutionality Dilemma by Jenna Baum, Esq. and Justin Ortega, Esq. Early September of 2020, six months after the pandemic began and while many state eviction moratoriums had already come to an end, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped in with an added protection to the landlord tenant eviction process, issuing their own “Temporary Halt on Residential Evictions” (85 FR 55292). The
