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ACLU sues psychiatric hospital for alleged ‘patient dumping’

James F. Brown hopes the civil rights class action lawsuit filed late Tuesday afternoon over allegations of patient dumping by Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas will serve as a lesson — a lesson for Nevada and other states not to improperly discharge mentally ill patients.

National transplant board seeks medical, legal balance with review system

PITTSBURGH — Faced with a federal judge’s order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board sought a balance that will keep such decisions in the hands of doctors, not lawyers or judges.