The judge today ruled to dismiss this case just as the DOJ – which launched three separate probes – and the Manhattan district attorney did previously,” a Cuomo rep said.

A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit over COVID deaths in nursing homes filed against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Other families who lost loved ones joined the lawsuit, which accused Cuomo and his administration of causing more deaths when a March 2020 directive initially barred nursing homes from refusing to accept patients who were no longer sick enough to require hospitalization. More than 15,000 people died in New York nursing homes during the pandemic.

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his deputies over a decision to require nursing homes to accept Covid-positive residents at the height of the pandemic. Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted a motion to dismiss filed by Cuomo’s lawyers in the U.