Nielson v. Legacy Health Systems

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plaintiff failed to allege membership of a protected class under § 1985 when alleging discrimination based on “divorced fathers seeking custody”
• declining to find that a single father is a member of a protected class for the purposes of a claim under § 1985(3)
• dismissing a complaint because the plaintiff did not provide specific factual allegations with respect to each of the defendants' acts which led him to believe there was a conspiracy
• dismissing the plaintiff’s § 1983 claims against private medical facilities and their employees, and explaining that “[t]he Ninth Circuit has consistently dismissed private hospitals, doctors, and attorneys in § 1983 claims for failing to come within the color of state law”

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