Mealey's (March 12, 2021, 1:58 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in New Jersey properly found that the operators of two rehabilitation facilities where at least 50 patients have died from COVID-19 were not acting at the direction of a federal agency or operator, and the operators’ arguments to the contrary are “overreaching,” the plaintiffs in two putative negligence and wrongful death actions tell the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a March 10 appellee brief urging affirmance of the lower court’s order remanding their cases to state court....