Both commercial landlords and tenants continue to struggle from governmental lockdowns and financial pressures. Recent bankruptcy decisions have added an additional layer of financial distress on commercial landlords by: (i) reducing commercial tenants' rent based on the subject lease's force majeure provision and governmental pandemic orders and (2) ignoring commercial tenants' requirement of timely payment of post-bankruptcy rent and allowing commercial tenants to "pause" payment of rent consistent with the governmental “stay” orders issued because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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