Rehab Facility Appellants Say BP Supports 3rd Circuit Review Of COVID Remand Order

Mealey's (June 4, 2021, 10:48 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The operators of two rehabilitation facilities that have asked the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court’s order remanding two putative COVID-19-related negligence and wrongful death suits against them to New Jersey state court tell the appellate court in a May 21 letter that the U.S. Supreme Court’s May 17 decision in BP P. L.C., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore supports their argument that the court “has jurisdiction to consider all of appellants’ grounds for removal that were raised in addition to the federal officer removal statute.”...