Mealey's (June 24, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — The operators of two New Jersey rehabilitation centers where at least 50 patients have died from COVID-19 maintain in a June 22 brief opposing remand that a class action negligence and wrongful death suit filed against them belongs in federal court because the claims fall under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act; alternatively, they argue that the national emergency declaration and regulations issued by national health agencies in response to the pandemic converted health care workers and facilities into "agents and officers acting to further a government interest thus conferring Federal Officer jurisdiction" (Estate of Joseph Maglioli, et al. v. Andover Subacute Rehabilitation Center I, et al., No. 20-cv-6605, D. N.J.)....