PREP Act Preempts State Law Claims, Nursing Home Appellants Tell 5th Circuit

Mealey's (August 13, 2021, 2:36 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Taken together, the provisions of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act “manifest the ‘extraordinary preemptive power’ that the Supreme Court has identified as the hallmark of a complete preemption statute that creates a basis for federal question jurisdiction,” the owners and operators of a nursing home say in an Aug. 5 brief urging the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court’s order remanding a COVID-19-related negligence suit against them to Texas state court....