A federal judge struck down a nationwide eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ruling the 2020 ban was beyond its authority. The ruling in the lawsuit, known as Skyworks Ltd. v. CDC, came late March 10. The legal action was filed Oct. 23 in federal court in Ohio, as The Epoch Times previously reported. Among the plaintiffs were Ohio landlord Skyworks Ltd. and the National Association of Homebuilders. “This is a victory for the rule of law,” Steve Simpson, a senior attorney at Sacramento, Calif.-based Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that represented a group of landlords in the lawsuit, said in a statement. “This decision makes clear that federal agencies can’t exercise power Congress has not given them. Now our clients no longer have to provide housing for free.” The CDC argued the eviction ban was needed to curb the spread …