{"id":203987,"date":"2026-04-20T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:21:08","slug":"scotus-refuses-to-hear-case-on-pandemic-nursing-home-deaths-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203987\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS refuses to hear case on pandemic nursing home deaths in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington D.C. \u2014 In a decision Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case holding Former Governor Cuomo’s administration and the Greater New York Hospital Association responsible for thousands of deaths in New York nursing homes.<\/p>\n

An amended complaint filed in 2023 was filed by New York nursing home residents who died during the first wave of COVID-19. They pointed to a March 2025 directive by the Cuomo administration to put COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes. The directive was rescinded six weeks later. <\/p>\n

The complaint argues that the administration violated the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act, which establishes nursing home residents\u2019 statutory rights to safety, dignity, and protection.<\/p>\n

The case was picked up by the Supreme Court after a lower court dismissed the case, granting qualified immunity to the Former Governer, as well as his former secretary and DOH commissioner. <\/p>\n

BACKGROUND: Andrew Cuomo again blamed for COVID-19 nursing home deaths, accused of cover-up<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2024, A Republican-led panel said<\/a> Cuomo and his aides “recklessly” exposed New York\u2019s most vulnerable population to COVID-19. However, A Spokesperson for Former Governor Cuomo hit back at the report, saying the investigations failed to provide any evidence that nursing home admissions were “mandatory.” <\/p>\n

CBS6 Investigates: Video, records spotlight care concerns at Cohoes nursing home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. \u2014 In a decision Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case holding Former Governor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-203987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}