Gedrich v. Fairfax County Department of Family Services

How courts have described this case

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

• No liability for “foster care placement” and “subsequent confinement” when county had legal custody of a child pursuant to a court order.
• ‘‘[t]he doctrine of sovereign immunity does not shield state employees from liability for acts or omissions constitut- ing gross negligence’’
• “[Defendant] set in motion a series of events that she knew or reasonably should have known would cause [the children’s shelter] to deprive [plaintiff] of her constitutional rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).