Cummings v. Charter Hospital of Las Vegas, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that private parties are state actors when detaining individuals against their will under Nevada’s involuntary- commitment statutes
• stating that the district court possesses \broad discretion\ to permit or deny the joinder of parties
• stating that the district court possesses “broad discretion” to permit or deny the joinder of parties
• noting that a claim for civil RICO must allege that the defendant committed two or more predicate acts related to criminal racketeering
• finding that 15 the medical providers who held someone under NRS § 433A.160 were state actors
• stating that rales of statutory construction apply to court rales

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).