Cadwell v. New York City Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress where the defendant social workers were merely carrying out their duties in investigating allegations of child abuse
• finding the allegations in the complaint against DCF employees insufficient to support a constitutional violation
• finding that the plaintiff failed to state a claim for supervisory liability based on the defendants’ “roles in establishing policy or engaging in supervision and training” where the plaintiff “failed to put forth facts identifying the policy at issue or what training was allegedly omitted”
• dismissing § 1983 claims against municipality in absence of constitutional violation by municipal employee
• granting qualified immunity to DCF social workers regardless of whether “their suspicion was ultimately determined to be unfounded or that they were perhaps overzealous in their investigation” (internal quotation marks omitted
• involving a family member alleging ongoing physical and sexual child abuse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).