Barlow v. Marion County Hospital District

OPINION AND ORDER

CHARLES R. SCOTT, Senior District Judge.

This case is before the Court upon plaintiffs’ motion that this action be designated as a class action, pursuant to Rule 23(b)(2), Fed.R.Civ.P. and Local Rule 4.04.1 The ac*621tion is brought by nine consumers of health care services against three groups of defendants, hereinafter referred to as the hospital defendants, the state defendants, and the federal defendants.2 Class action designation has been placed in issue by the opposition filed by the hospital defendants on May 14, 1980, and the opposition filed by the federal defendants on…