1
00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,400
Speaker 1: Well, this was inevitable. Now comes the coronavirus legal blowback.

2
00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,039
Speaker 1: In Massachusetts. Property owners are fed up. They are suing

3
00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,160
Speaker 1: the state and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing an

4
00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,360
Speaker 1: Economic Development. The issue is the eviction moratorium that was

5
00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,040
Speaker 1: put in place during the lockdown to permit tenants to

6
00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,280
Speaker 1: stay in their rental properties even if they hadn't paid rent.

7
00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,520
Speaker 1: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker just extended the eviction moratorium until

8
00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,240
Speaker 1: the middle of October. A lawyer for the landlord's explains

9
00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,080
Speaker 1: that one of his clients, a nurse, is owed twenty

10
00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,479
Speaker 1: dollars in back rent. The nurse is now experiencing serious

11
00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,839
Speaker 1: financial difficulties because the government did not give her a

12
00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,560
Speaker 1: moratorium on paying her financial obligations. The lawsuit was filed

13
00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,960
Speaker 1: in federal court. It accuses the state of violating the

14
00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,760
Speaker 1: landlord's right to just compensation for what amounts to the

15
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,560
Speaker 1: unlawful taking of their property, violating their right to the

16
00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,920
Speaker 1: legal process, and unconstitutionally im hering their lease agreements. You

17
00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,200
Speaker 1: can bet there could be a slew of lawsuits like

18
00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,720
Speaker 1: this across the nation, not just from landlords, but from

19
00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,200
Speaker 1: thousands of business owners going bust. Because power hungry governors

20
00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,600
Speaker 1: of liberal states want to keep everything shut down to

21
00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,840
Speaker 1: damage President Trump. These blue state autocrats believe they are

22
00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:24,240
Speaker 1: invincible and unaccountable, and we're about to find out whether

23
00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,560
Speaker 1: or not they are right as usual, trial lawyers right

24
00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,760
Speaker 1: in the middle of the mess.