Cavarretta v. Department of Children & Family Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring use of preponderance standard so that the child protection agency and the subject “share the risk of error, rather than have the accused bear the brunt of the risk”
• applying two-part test to determine whether plaintiff was deprived of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• requiring use of preponderance standard rather than credible evidence because of high risk of error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).