U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman ruled state leaders named in the lawsuit are not protected from litigation over their response to the pandemic inside Oregon’s correctional institutions. The ruling could have national implications because it’s believed to be one of the first rulings where a judge found a state is not protected from litigation over its pandemic response in prisons and could have to pay financial damages.
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/16/oregon-department-corrections-covid-19-inmates-lawsuit/