Mealey's (October 21, 2022, 2:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a respondents’ brief in opposition to a nursing home’s petition for a writ of certiorari, the successors and heirs who filed a wrongful death suit on behalf of a man who died at the nursing home from COVID-19 assert that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision affirming remand to state court correctly held “that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 (PREP Act) does not completely preempt state-law claims like those” filed by the heirs....