Judge Britt Grant, writing for the majority, noted that tenants had to file documents that declared they could not pay rent because of loss of income or extraordinary medical expenses, they had tried their best to make partial payments and if they were evicted they could become homeless.
“These attestations certainly show that the tenants could not afford their rent at the time they were signed,” Grant wrote. “But they paint a hazy picture — at best — of any given tenant’s ability to pay later.”
Judge Britt Grant, a member of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. (DAVID BARNES / DAVID.BARNES@AJC.COM)
The decision upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee in Atlanta. He found the landlords’ economic harms were outweighed by the potential loss of lives the government had argued could occur if the moratorium is lifted.
Writing in dissent, 11th Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch dismissed that reasoning: “The government has not demonstrated that allowing a handful of evictions go forward would cause any loss of life, let alone the massive loss of life it has claimed could happen if the (eviction freeze) is invalidated nationwide.”
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#BREAKING A large structure fire in DeKalb County has North Druid Hills Rd closed between Clairmont Rd and Lavista Rd. Traffic is detoured. Use those or Houston Mill as alternates. @wsbradio @wsbtv #ATLtraffic pic.twitter.com/NOVHWISnA8
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Three former members — former chairman Bob Shaw, Samuel Jolley Jr. and Walter Metze Jr. — collected more than $800,000 combined. Shaw alone received more than $500,000 each in per diem and salary from a secret job he held as director of external affairs while he served as board chairman."},{"_id":"57RSA3ZBL5B25EH7HQ4MAHHHHA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626193517610},"type":"text","content":"Shaw and Jolley at times were paid $200 per diems by the number of items on meeting agendas or for signing official documents. 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Nicks, according to his biography, is certified in government auditing and fraud examination."},{"_id":"6U4UPTUH6JCFTOP3CYAOJWJZQQ","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"AVRPBLRF35DJ5MXALLX67RI34A"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Controversial fees paid to Fulton board members may not have been legal, officials say","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/controversial-fees-paid-to-fulton-board-members-may-not-have-been-legal-officials-say/5K37IIMLXZGODGRZ3CQBAOC6KM/"},{"_id":"LCVSTDCOERDXDFTX34SHJOHODY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626196557505},"type":"text","content":"The chairman said he couldn’t imagine DAFC turning down an offer get rid of all these distractions."},{"_id":"6AULY3LA7RFBPM7P42SCPXXNW4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626196557506},"type":"text","content":"“That would be very instructive if they were to refuse to do so,” Pitts said. “I would think that they would want to. 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At the Capitol, protesters chanting “Tear down Gordon” faced off with guards over the equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon."},{"_id":"3TDVNAC5V5DAHM2TZYPAUC72HI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813610},"type":"text","content":"Here are the most visible places in metro Atlanta that commemorate the Confederacy and its leaders. (And for more information about Confederate and segregation-era politicians honored at the Capitol, click here.)"},{"owner":{"id":"ajc"},"workflow":{"status_code":4},"caption":"The Lion of the Confederacy was erected in Oakland Cemetery in 1895. 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The two largest can be found in historic Oakland Cemetery. This monument, based on Switzerland's Lion of Lucerne, is surrounded by the graves of 3,000 unknown Confederate soldiers. It was constructed in 1895 by the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association and is on a Smithsonian list of significant funerary art."},{"_id":"PPXYJVAACVDE7I42HZDZAHHHYE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813614},"type":"text","content":"In 2019, the city erected a new marker after its advisory committee recommended that iconography within Oakland Cemetery be left in place with added context."},{"_id":"OTLTYXLBYJCJJDVBWZLHR5J4FQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813615},"type":"text","content":"However, on four occasions in May and June 2020, vandals covered the sculpture with spray-paint graffiti. 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Lanier was a famous musician, poet and author from Macon who was inducted as a charter member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. His artistic legacy is so large that Lanier County and Lake Lanier are named after him."},{"_id":"LNV4EWR6BFEA7JUY4BKXVWEK2U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813640},"type":"text","content":"In his youth, Lanier was a Confederate soldier who was captured by Union forces. He contracted tuberculosis while a prisoner of war and this condition would plague him until his death. Lanier's only published novel was a good-vs-evil tale with a Yankee villian."},{"_id":"FGMGU7TX6NF53JVY7BJJ6KG7RY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813641},"type":"text","content":"In 2012, the bust was relocated to Oglethorpe University and a replica was installed at Piedmont Park. The Atlanta committee concluded that the bust was not a Confederate monument and recommended leaving it in place."},{"_id":"EIPPK7SM5FBFBEWAEW54EUK6MM","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":1595252813642,"id":"U57780323116KcE"},"type":"raw_html","content":""},{"_id":"T6DG6KE52JFVTFVRSZDUF4TJ6A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813643},"type":"text","content":"ATLANTA STREET NAMES"},{"_id":"DDMEKHVG4NBGTAUHVD4Z2UTST4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813644},"type":"text","content":"The Atlanta committee report identified 34 city streets possibly memorializing the Confederacy and recommended that some names get changed immediately: Confederate Avenue, East Confederate Avenue, and any street named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, John B. Gordon, Robert E. 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This granite mansion in Midtown has a series of stained glass windows that show the history of the Confederacy, including key battles and portraits of generals and statesmen. The windows were reinstalled at the home in 1990 after spending 25 years in storage at the Georgia Archives. Rhodes Hall hasn't been a public space since the Georgia Trust took possession of it in 1983, but it spent decades as a state building — the home of the Georgia Archives from 1930-65."},{"owner":{"id":"ajc"},"workflow":{"status_code":4},"caption":"WESTVIEW CEMETERY MEMORIAL: The cemetery sits where the Battle of Ezra Church was fought during the Campaign for Atlanta. This memorial was erected by the Confederate Veterans Association of Fulton County in the Confederate section of the cemetery. It's ringed by soldiers' graves and has a pair of small cannons guarding it. Nearby Mozley Park, where Ezra Church stood, contains more historical markers commemorating the battle. (KENT D. 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The statue had been on loan from a private citizen, who feared that it might be damaged, and asked that it be removed. It is unclear if the donor will ever want it to return to the grounds. Jefferson, our third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, owned more than 600 slaves."},{"_id":"5BNFWRLKHFDODHV73FBH52P5NU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1616090577921},"type":"text","content":"Yet another monument on the DeKalb Courthouse grounds is being considered for removal — a cannon erected to commemorate the Indian War of 1836. The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed the cannon there in 1906. In December 2020, the Decatur City Commissioners voted to remove the cannon but acknowleged that the county should decide its future. 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According to the Coosa Valley News, the statue will be moved to the nearby remnants Fort Norton, a Civil War fortification."},{"_id":"3GKRG42SQZALBATXHL4OJHVDFA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1616089834228},"type":"text","content":"DALTON: In February 2021, a statue of Confederate Gen. Joseph P. Johnston was removed from a prominent public space downtown. The action was taken by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns the statue, and did not involve public input or local votes. An attorney for the UDC told CNN that “various parties have worked together” to find a solution. The statue, which was erected in 1912, will be relocated to the historic Huff House, which once served as Johnston’s headquarters during the Civil War."},{"_id":"OP6ANGYDSNBD7PCQD63BFKH7SQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611064893805},"type":"text","content":"MACON: Macon-Bibb commissioners voted to relocate two Confederate monuments in downtown Macon in July 2020 as part of a downtown revitalization project. The plan calls on placing the two monuments — one a 141-year old statue of an anonymous Confederate soldier statue on Cotton Avenue and the other a “Women of the South” obelisk on Poplar Street — to Whittle Park outside of Rose Cemetery. A lawsuit filed by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars Georgia Society Inc. calls the plan “a racially-motivated action designed for political purposes to placate the mob mentalities” and seeks to block the moves. 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He was charged two days later in Clayton County, which has jurisdiction at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, with simple battery on police and obstructing an officer. He was released on $7,500 bond and entered a not guilty plea in August, records show. That case is still pending."},{"_id":"WMSYJLG7TRFEVNYF7PIOY25TOI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626206132579},"type":"text","content":"Rhoden was arrested Thursday at the Chamblee Police Department, where he had gone to pick up a “significant amount of money” seized during a traffic stop five days earlier, Chamblee police said. Rhoden had been stopped about 11:30 p.m. on July 3 – about nine hours after Siller was shot – while driving a black Maserati with a temporary tag in the 5000 block of Peachtree Boulevard, a DeKalb County warrant shows."},{"_id":"2OJH7ER5GFES5CODTJV2MRR3HM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626206132580},"type":"text","content":"Rhoden was booked into the DeKalb County Jail on misdemeanor counts of DUI, a headlight violation, fake ID, driving without insurance, driving an unregistered vehicle and using a license plate to conceal the identity of a vehicle, records show."},{"_id":"RDIDREIYXVBDBA47QWSN37TESY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626206132581},"type":"text","content":"Rhoden’s lawyer, Bruce Harvey, has cautioned against a rush to judgment. 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#Update 10:03 a.m. The suspect involved in this morning’s shooting outside Security Square Mall is deceased. #Baltimore
— Baltimore County Police Department (@BaltCoPolice) July 13, 2021
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#BREAKING According to sources two US Marshals shot and wounded as they tried to arrest Baltimore City homicide suspect west of Baltimore. Sources say suspect opened fire as they approached. Suspect also hit. pic.twitter.com/e9bG1MrqI5
— Brad Bell (@Brad7News) July 13, 2021
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#BREAKING: @BaltCoPolice is on scene of a shooting at Security Square Mall near Macy’s. Media being staged near the Bayit Furniture Store…waiting for more info on what happened @wbaltv11 pic.twitter.com/AiGYAwHd5K
— Amy Lu (@amyluwbal) July 13, 2021
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