Mealey's (September 12, 2022, 1:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C — With an upcoming oral argument in a nursing home’s appeal of a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling that the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA) confers a private right of action to nursing home residents, the solicitor general, on behalf of the United States, on Sept. 9 moved the U.S. Supreme Court for 15 minutes of argument time to present the government’s case that permitting enforcement of the specific rights at issue in the instant case is inconsistent with the administrative rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services....