A federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that blamed his administration for COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes across the state.
In her order, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla wrote that the plaintiffs in the case did not have the federal right to file a lawsuit against the former governor, a Democrat who is currently running to be the next mayor of New York City, as well as several others who had served in his administration.
The plaintiffs argued in court papers that their family members had contracted COVID-19 in New York state nursing homes due to a March 2020 order issued by Cuomo that prohibited nursing homes from denying the admission of people into their facilities “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” The move was done so as to free up hospital bed space during the early onset of the pandemic by sending people from those medical facilities to nursing homes….