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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 8

Citation
Section 8
Parent Document
Theodore Hayes v. Philip Harvey, 874 F.3d 98 (2017)
Effective Date
2017-10-18

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          The majority insists that courts must uphold the
political branches’ decision about how to balance social costs
and benefits. Maj. Op. at 26 (quoting Henson v. Santander
Consumer USA, Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718, 1725 (2017)). Yet even
as it denies effect to a Congressional enactment and entirely
ignores the wisdom of the Executive Branch (HUD’s
guidance), it strews its opinion with references to the policy
imperative of encouraging landlord participation in Section 8
(a red herring in the narrower context of enhanced vouchers),
Maj. Op. at 4, 16-17, solemnly intones about property owners’
rights, and the “burden[s]” placed upon them, Maj. Op. at 21
n.7, and insists that, the Hayes family’s imminent eviction