James v. Sunrise Hospital

86 F.3d 885 64 USLW 2807 , 51 Soc.Sec.Rep.Ser. 113, 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4267 , 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 6895 Carol JAMES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SUNRISE HOSPITAL, dba Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and Sunrise Children's Hospital fka Humana Inc., dba Humana Hospital Sunrise, a Nevada Corporation; Does I through X, and Roes Corporations I through X, inclusive, Defendants-Appellees. No. 93-17337. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 16, 1995. Decided June 14, 1996. Bruce Scott Dickinson (argued) and Anthony J. D'Olio (on the briefs), Earley & Dickinson, Las Vegas, Nevada, for defendants-appellees. Robert E. Murdock, Murdock & Palazzo, Las Vegas, Nevada, for plaintiff-appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Lloyd D. George, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-93-00791-LDG. Before GOODWIN, SNEED and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. OPINION KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge: 1 Ms. James alleges that she developed an emergency medical condition while in the hospital and was discharged in violation of the federal anti-patient-dumping statute. Her complaint was dismissed for failure to state a claim upon…