Mealey's (November 21, 2022, 12:02 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a nursing home’s petition for a writ of certiorari in a case where the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed remand to state court of a wrongful death suit filed by the successors and heirs on behalf of a man who died at the nursing home from COVID-19 after finding “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....