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US judge rejects Vegas 'patient dumping' lawsuit
APNews.excite ^ | Feb 13, 2014 | Ken Ritter

Posted on 02/14/2014 8:21:31 AM PST by KeyLargo

US judge rejects Vegas 'patient dumping' lawsuit

Feb 13, 8:57 PM (ET)

By KEN RITTER

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A federal judge in Nevada rejected a lawsuit Thursday that accuses Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of violating a patient's civil rights by giving him a bus ticket and sending him to California.

But an American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada lawyer representing patient James Flavey Coy Brown characterized the ruling as a setback, not a fatal blow to the case. It seeks class-action status for Brown and as many as 1,500 unnamed people his lawyers claim were bused since 2008 from Nevada to other states.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: aclu; california; coalstonewcastle; mental; patients
Headline should be:

Nevada exports nuts to land of nuts.

1 posted on 02/14/2014 8:21:31 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Nevada is simply returning the sick to the sick state.

Now, if they can manage to stuff Whorehouse Harry into one of those vans.....(they can use a trunk of a car, if no room in the van). Make it a hot day.

Very hot.


2 posted on 02/14/2014 8:30:23 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: KeyLargo
The reason for this lawsuit was to establish a means to transfer tax revenue from red states to blue ones, so that the socialist left could tax anyone anywhere, by sending their criminal class out of state for a few days.

Piracy, nothing less.

3 posted on 02/14/2014 8:32:24 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: KeyLargo

What was it Frank Lloyd Wright said, “The United States appears to be tilted towards the southwest, and everything loose ends up in southern California.”


4 posted on 02/14/2014 8:33:44 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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