Guterman v. Rice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that government officials \cannot seize children suspected of being abused or neglected unless reasonable avenues of investigation are first pursued . . . .\
• holding that government officials “cannot seize children suspected of being abused or neglected unless reasonable avenues of investigation are first pursued .... ”
• holding that there was a genuine factual dispute over the “imminency” of the danger to a child based on allegations that the child’s father intended to ritually sacrifice him to Satan the following week
• holding that there was a genuine factual dispute over the “imminency” of the danger tó a child based on allegations that the child’s father intended to ritually sacrifice him to Satan the following week
• concluding that material issues of fact precluded summary judgment regarding the existence of a municipal custom or practice of taking children from their homes without adequate safeguards based on testimony from three detectives who had seized a child from his home
• holding that there was a genuine factual dispute over the “imminency” of the danger to a child based on allegations that the child’s father intended to ritually sacrifice him to Satan the following week

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).