Cummings v. Charter Hospital of Las Vegas, Inc.

OPINION

By the Court,

Rose, J.:

Based on their involuntary detention in the respondent mental hospital, appellants Elaine Cummings (Cummings), Nancy Patnaude (Patnaude), and Deborah White (White) (collectively the patients), filed a class action complaint alleging, inter alia, a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights claim and a claim for civil racketeering. The district court declined to certify the action as a class action. The district court also dismissed the patients’ action for civil racketeering for lack of specificity in pleading and the patients’ § 1983 civil rights claim because there was no…