Appeal Over COVID ‘Cure’ Claims To Continue Without Manufacturer After Bankruptcy

(November 3, 2023, 10:28 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — An investor’s appeal of a federal judge’s dismissal of his putative class complaint against a pharmaceutical company and certain of its executives accusing them of falsely claiming that its COVID-19 treatment was a “cure” will proceed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals without the pharmaceutical company after a clerk’s order lifted the automatic stay in the case initiated after the company’s bankruptcy....