Mealey's (May 3, 2021, 9:40 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The family of a man who died in a nursing home after contracting COVID-19 argues to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an April 28 brief that a lower federal court properly remanded its wrongful death suit against a nursing home to a state court because the facility was not performing federal governmental functions. The nursing home says in its appeal that the federal government and nursing homes have a special relationship in light of the national public health emergency....