Assisted Living Residents Appeal Dismissal Of Class Suit Over COVID-19 Response

Mealey's (June 15, 2021, 11:41 AM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Residents of an assisted living facility who filed a putative class complaint alleging that the facility’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA) filed a notice of appeal on June 10, approximately one month after a New Jersey federal judge dismissed the complaint for failure to sufficiently plead that they have been discriminated against because of their disabilities and “to articulate a nexus between the disabilities and the reasonable accommodations requested.”...