9th Circuit Schedules Oral Argument On Jurisdiction Of COVID-19 Nursing Home Case

Mealey's (August 10, 2021, 2:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an Aug. 8 docket entry scheduled oral argument for Oct. 21 in an appeal of a federal judge’s order remanding a COVID-19-related wrongful death and negligence action to California state court after finding that no claims were brought under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), that the removal was not justified by federal officer jurisdiction and that there was no showing of an “imbedded question of federal law.”...