The U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an authorized nursing assistant’s lawsuit in opposition to a state-funded healthcare facility, concluding that the defendants have been entitled to certified immunity.
In an Oct. 25 opinion, authored by U.S. Court docket of Appeals Decide Gustavo A. Gelpí for the First Circuit, the court docket upheld the Massachusetts District Court docket’s dismissal of an authorized nursing assistant’s lawsuit in opposition to a state-funded healthcare facility that homes veterans, after he asserted violations of his constitutional substantive due course of rights to a secure work setting, to be free from a state-created hazard, and to bodily integrity, through the COVID-19 outbreak..
