Downs v. Department of Public Welfare

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN, District Judge.

Before this Court is the defendants’ motion to dismiss this civil rights action seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief to end the alleged “forced labor” of mental hospital patients in Pennsylvania. The named plaintiffs, 1 and the class they seek to represent, sue state agencies and officials, individually 2 and in their representative capacity, who, allegedly, acting under color of state law, and in conspiracy with one another, deprived the plaintiffs of their right to be free from involuntary servitude and cruel and…