The state Court of Appeals said it will not take up the appeal of a ruling over whether New York nursing homes may compel patients to submit to arbitration if they have a grievance about their care or conditions at their facility.

The court dismissed without comment a motion filed by the plaintiff in Friedman v. Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, asking it to decide whether an Appellate Division, First Department, panel was correct in August 2015 when it said the challenge to the nursing home’s arbitration requirement upon patients’ admission was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.

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