Suffolk Parents of Handicapped Adults v. Pataki

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TRAGER, District Judge:

This action was brought by four profoundly disabled and medically fragile adults, who have been institutionalized under joint State-local programs for many years, most recently under a program called Transitional Care Funding (TCF). The TCF program was developed to provide a bridge between educational placements of severely disabled persons in residential programs and long-term adult residential care after these persons became adults or, as it is called, “aged-out” of educational placements at the end of the school year in which they became…