Opinion ID: 2532739
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Heading: The Issue on Review

Text: ¶ 2. As a preliminary matter, pursuant to Mississippi Rule of Appellate Procedure 17(h), we limit our review of this case to the narrow issue of whether the defendants' alleged failure to ensure that Ms. Fedrick received proper nutrition constituted a continuing tort sufficient to toll the statute of limitations as to the survival claims. We do not address whether the trial court erred in finding that Quorum was entitled to MTCA immunity. ¶ 3. We also note that, in its supplemental brief following our grant of the estate's petition for writ of certiorari, the estate alleged that Quorum had waived any right to assert MTCA immunity by failing to plead this affirmative defense in its answer. Quorum responded with a motion to strike this portion of the estate's supplemental brief, arguing that the estate was raising this issue for the first time. In a single-justice order, this issue was passed for consideration with the merits of the appeal. Because we are limiting our review to the issue stated above, Quorum's motion to strike certain pages of the estate's supplemental brief is dismissed as moot.