A cluster of lawsuits against a Chester County treatment center for troubled youths is beginning to take shape in federal court, joining a rising number of similar litigations against juvenile treatment centers that are now wending their way through the Pennsylvania court systems.

Over the past few months, dozens of lawsuits against VisionQuest, a behavioral health shelter for delinquent youths, have been removed from the Chester County Court of Common Pleas and sent to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.