This Week in the Circuits: NY Nursing Home Qualified Immunity Fight Hits Second Circuit

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Is former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo immune from lawsuits seeking to hold him and other former New York State officials liable for Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes? Two families will try to convince the Second Circuit on Tuesday that he isn’t.

The families say their relatives and thousands of others who were nursing home residents during the pandemic died from Covid as a result of a March 2020 state policy—implemented by then-governor Cuomo and state health officials—that directed nursing homes to ...