LOS ANGELES—Two landlord groups asked a Los Angeles County judge this week to put a stop to the county’s extended COVID-19 residential eviction moratorium, asserting the rules were unconstitutional. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted on Jan. 25 to extend the eviction moratorium in three phases, leaving some protections in place until the end of June 2023. California’s eviction moratorium ended in September. The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles and the Apartment Owners Association of California, Inc., filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on March 7 seeking a preliminary injunction against the county’s moratorium extension. The groups claimed in the lawsuit that the moratorium created a “rent holiday.” Los Angeles County had no comment about the lawsuit, spokesman Jesus A. Ruiz told The Epoch Times in an email. The county’s extension will allow COVID-affected tenants throughout the county who say they have financial hardships to declare …