“Nevada and San Francisco have tentatively agreed upon $400,000 to settle the lawsuit San Francisco filed two years ago.
“The state of Nevada and its primary psychiatric hospital “intentionally and wrongfully” foisted the cost of caring for indigent mentally ill people onto California cities and counties by issuing patients bus tickets out of town…
“San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed the class-action lawsuit against Nevada, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas and state mental health administrators, seeking reimbursement for the care of indigent patients…
“Nevada, in lieu of helping the psychiatric patients in their care, bought at least 24 patients one-way tickets out of Nevada to the Bay Area.”
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