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What Happened: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Los Angeles County imposed a temporary moratorium on residential and commercial evictions. A commercial landlord that had leased property to an auto repair tenant that was no longer paying rent due to COVID sued the county, claiming that the moratorium impaired his lease in violation of the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bans states, counties, municipalities, and other local governments from passing laws that impair “the Obligation of Contracts.”
