united-states jurisdiction hypothetical
Suppose Eviction bans are struck down
<p>Suppose the Supreme Court strikes down both the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-eviction-declaration.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CDC's eviction ban</a>
and all local bans.</p>
<p>What happens if local governments ignore the Supreme Court and still refuse to evict? Can individual sheriffs, deputies etc follow the Supreme Court's decision and carry out evictions?</p>
<p>Can the federal government create special &quot;eviction police&quot; to override local law and enforce the Court's decision? (The answer is very likely yes, given civil rights used federal troops, but this seems like a very major use of federal power over local matters.)</p>
<p>And in response to &quot;court needs to order eviction &quot;, you need to cite that because it isn't mentioned. Example from NY</p>
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<p>A tenant shall include an occupant of one or more rooms in a rooming house or a resident, not including a transient occupant, of one or more rooms in a hotel who has been in possession for thirty consecutive days or longer;  he shall not be removed from possession except in a special proceeding</p>
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<p>With &quot;special proceeding&quot; not further defined. Could it be a proceeding in another court? Or no court? The contract could specify the venue, but isn't the entire issue being due to the contract being invalid under some law?</p>

<p>This would very much depend on the exact wording of any such supreme court decision. Since no such decision has been made, there is no way to see what exactly it says.</p>
<p>Eviction Law is largely local. Federal courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, do not interfere in local (state) law unless a valid constitutional federal law contradicts state law, or someone's federal constitutional rights are being violated, or the state law is in some other way in violation of the Federal Constitution. It is hard to see how an eviction ban would fall under any of those, but I suppose th4e Court could hold that such a ban violated the Due Process rights of landlords. In that case local courts might be directed to issue eviction orders without considerations the invalid state law or order.</p>
<p>But this is all wholly speculative, as no such case has to my knowledge, even been filed, much less decided.</p>
