The Texas Supreme Court has directed courts in the state to stop honoring the federal moratorium on residential evictions that a federal judge in the state already struck down in late February as unconstitutional. The Texas Supreme Court’s 34th emergency order that applied the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) moratorium on evictions expired March 31 and has not been renewed, which means new and paused eviction applications may now move forward. The Texas Justice Court Training Center, which is responsible for training eviction court judges, is now encouraging judges to set new hearings for old cases that were put on hold by the CDC order, to determine if landlords want to proceed. “This just means that the courts in Texas would follow Texas procedure in law, which doesn’t have anything in it about the CDC moratorium. Now there could be local laws that would maybe have a moratorium,” …