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HOSPITAL CORP. OF AMERICA v. DIST. COURT

No. 28121.

924 P.2d 725 (1996)

HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, A Tennessee Corporation; Hospital Corporation of America, A West Virginia Corporation; Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation; HCA-Hospital Corporation of America; and HCA Psychiatric Company, Petitioners, v. The SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF The STATE OF NEVADA, in and For The COUNTY OF WASHOE, and the Honorable Peter I. Breen, Respondents, and Marsha Robinson, Individually and Guardian Ad Litem of Melissa Banta, Kresnae Pagni, Patrick and Carma Sorenson, Gayle Homes, Willard Tucker, Tamera Anne Humphreys, and Barbara D'Anna. Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

September 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel Sawyer & Collins and Jeffrey D. Menicucci, Reno, for Petitioners.

Kevin M. Berry, Reno, for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

In this original petition, petitioners seek to have respondents' tort action against them dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. The dispute arises out of tortious conduct allegedly suffered by real parties in interest ("plaintiffs") while they were patients at a Nevada psychiatric hospital. The hospital was owned, at different times, by two Nevada corporations, both defendants in the underlying action. Petitioners, also...

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