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    Nevada Jury: $250K Per Mental Patient Dumped To Other States

    Nov 02, 2018

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury put the state and a mental hospital administrator on the hook for close to $9 million in class-action damages for sending patients unaccompanied to states including California, Florida and Michigan.

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    Ninth Circuit Rejects Patient Dumping Lawsuit

    Nov 04, 2016

    A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that accused Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of dumping patients in other states by giving them bus tickets.

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    Nevada Settles Patient-Dumping Lawsuit Claim With Insurer

    Oct 12, 2016

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is agreeing to accept $300,000 to settle a lawsuit with an insurance provider that wouldn't pay a state claim to settle allegations of patient dumping with the city of San Francisco.

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    NV Sues Insurance Company Over Patient Dumping Suit

    Jul 07, 2016

    Nevada officials are suing an insurance company that they say wrongly refused to help pay a settlement in a patient busing case brought by San Francisco.

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    Former Mental Patient Wins Bid To Argue Patient Dumping Case

    May 23, 2016

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A former Nevada psychiatric patient will get another chance to argue in state court that he was improperly discharged from a Las Vegas mental health facility and put on a bus to California.

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    Nevada, San Francisco Close To Settling Patient Dumping Suit

    Nov 04, 2015

    The city of San Francisco and the state of Nevada are one step closer to settling a lawsuit regarding so-called patient dumping.

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    San Francisco To OK Patient-Dumping Lawsuit Settlement

    Oct 27, 2015

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors are on track to accept $400,000 from Nevada to settle allegations that psychiatric patients were wrongly shipped to California upon discharge.

    The settlement is on Tuesday's Board of Supervisors agenda.

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    Nevada OKs $400K To Settle Patient Dumping Suit From Calif.

    Oct 13, 2015

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada officials have approved paying $400,000 to San Francisco to settle allegations that psychiatric patients were wrongly bused to California.

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    Nevada Settles With San Francisco Over Patient Dumping

    Oct 06, 2015

    Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval says the state has reached a settlement with San Francisco over allegations that Nevada psychiatric patients were wrongly bused to California.

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    Nevada Adds $200K To Fight California Patient Busing Lawsuit

    Jul 08, 2015

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada officials including Gov. Brian Sandoval have approved more money to fend off a lawsuit that San Francisco filed over alleged psychiatric patient dumping.

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    Lawsuit Over Patient Dumping To Go Ahead

    Jul 06, 2015

    A U.S. Supreme Court ruling clears the way for governments to sue Nevada over what's known as patient dumping.

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    High Court Won't Hear Nevada Patient Dumping Case

    Jun 30, 2015

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from Nevada over a lawsuit that claims the state wrongfully bused indigent psychiatric patients to San Francisco without paying the costs of their medical care.

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    Las Vegas Psychiatric Hospital Reaccredited After Scandal

    Apr 01, 2015

     

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas psychiatric hospital is now reaccredited after an embarrassing patient busing scandal in 2013.

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    Judge Rules In Favor Of Las Vegas Psychiatric Hospital

    Jan 26, 2015
    A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit against the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital from a plaintiff who claims he was put on a one-way bus trip from...
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    End Of The Road For Patient Busing

    Apr 30, 2013

    BY AMY KINGSLEY -- Monday, Gov. Brian Sandoval publicly acknowledged that the state had put ten psychiatric patients on buses and sent them out of state, to places where they had no family members or arrangements for treatment.

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