Gomes v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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• evaluating whether the caseworker “had a reasonable suspicion of emergency circumstances which pose an immediate threat to the safety of a child” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• concerning Fourteenth Amendment claim brought under § 1983 by parents of child where social services had removed their child from their home after the child’s pediatrician reported suspected child abuse
• considering doctor’s report that he was “comfortable” sending a child home
• state officials may not remove children from home, through either temporary seizures or permanent termination of parental rights, without providing due process of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).