Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH)

[mrholty]

Been out of the country for a week with no internet or phone. Life was phenomenal. The only updates (and why you have not seen anything now at the end of July) is that in the 2 weeks following the judges request the 2 groups (HMA and the lawyers for the 2 cases) have filed short briefs explaining why/why not the judge should allow the case to be moved.

No decision to allow or not has been made by the judge. The only order by the judge has been to require a status update by Sept 4th.

Here was the actual order.

ORDER. In accordance with the attached Order, it is hereby ORDERED that the parties' request for an additional stay of this case to September 18, 2018, is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that the parties shall file an updated joint management report on or before September 4, 2018. It is further ORDERED that, on or before June 25, 2018, the relators in U.S. ex rel. Mason v. HMA, Inc., No. 3:10-cv-472 (W.D.N.C.), and U.S. ex rel. Jacqueline Meyer v. HMA, Inc., No. 11 cv 1713 (D.S.C.), shall show cause in writing as to why the Court should not immediately certify their cases back to the respective district courts in order to resume litigation in those courts, given the representations made by these two relators that they are not settling their pendent state law claims as part of the parties' proposed global resolution. Signed by Judge Reggie B. Walton on June 11, 2018.