High Court Approves Extension In Care Home Challenge To Remand Of COVID Death Suit

Mealey's (July 27, 2022, 9:01 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — As circuit justice for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on July 12 granted a nursing home’s application for an extension until Aug. 29 to file a petition for writ of certiorari challenging the Ninth Circuit’s affirmance of a district court’s order remanding to state court a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a man who died in the nursing home after contracting COVID-19....