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Wyoming Supreme Court Grants Immunity to DOC in Prison COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Up
by David M. Reutter
On October 26, 2023, the Supreme Court of Wyoming held that the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act shielded the state from liability in a lawsuit alleging a nurse negligently injected three prisoners with a COVID-19 vaccine other than the one listed on the ...
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