Doe v. Heck

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that child welfare caseworkers violated due process by making baseless threats that led plaintiffs to fear that removal of their children was imminent
• holding that parents stated claim for violation of due process where defendants threatened to remove children from custody of parents without reasonable suspicion of child abuse
• holding that student removed from class to be questioned by a caseworker and a uniformed police officer regarding alleged abuse had been seized for Fourth Amendment purposes
• holding the state denied parents’ substantive due process rights by conducting a custodial interview of a child “without notifying or obtaining the consent of his parents”
• acknowledging that there are circumstances in which the law of warrant and probable cause does not work effectively in the child removal or child examina- tion context
• noting that “the basic purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to safeguard the privacy and security of individuals against arbitrary invasions by governmental officials____” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).