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Federal appeals court blocks Oregon inmates lawsuit against governor over COVID-19 vaccine administration

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Federal appeals court blocks Oregon inmates lawsuit against governor over COVID-19 vaccine administration. The court found that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Actimmunized state officials and the vaccine administration from liability. The prisoners had then filed a class action lawsuit in response to that decision in April 2020.

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Federal appeals court blocks Oregon inmates lawsuit against governor over COVID-19 vaccine administration

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked on Thursday prison inmates’ lawsuit against Oregon Governor Kate Brown and others for putting the inmates on the lowest tier of priority for access to the COVID-19 vaccine. The court found that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act immunized state officials and the vaccine administration from liability. Immunity of the PREP Act took effect for the “manufacture, testing, d…

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