Daniel B. v. O'BANNON

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SHAPIRO, District Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this action on behalf of a putative class of mentally retarded individuals institutionalized at Woodhaven Center (“Woodhaven”), an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded operated by Temple University under contract with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for all Woodhaven residents “who are unnecessarily institutionalized at that facility because defendant state officials have failed to fulfill their federal and state duties to provide plaintiffs with suitable…