Bayer v. Monroe County Children and Youth Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the caseworkers, who did not return the children to their father for more than three weeks after the abuse allegations were deemed unfounded, were entitled to qualified immunity for the substantive due process claim
• “The doctrine of qualified immunity protects government officials from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).