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DOWNS v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

Civ. A. No. 73-1246.

368 F.Supp. 454 (1973)

Leonard DOWNS et al., Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 28, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Ferleger, Mental Patient Civil Liberties Project, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Barry A. Roth, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Public Welfare, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

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

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