LOS ANGELES—Two apartment owner groups filed court papers on March 7 challenging Los Angeles County’s pandemic-related eviction moratorium, which provides extended protections beginning next month for tenants who fail to pay rent. The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles and the Apartment Owners Association of California brought the still unofficial legal action in Los Angeles Superior Court, asking that preliminary and permanent injunctions be issued to prevent enforcement of the renewed eviction ban as unconstitutional. “Quite simply, the renewed eviction ban does not advance, to any degree, any legitimate public purpose,” the apartment owners state in their court papers. A representative for the county could not be immediately reached. Starting April 1, landlords with property in the county will no longer be able to evict tenants claiming they are impacted by the pandemic, nor may the property owners challenge a tenant’s self-certification of financial hardship, according to the apartment owners’ …