Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• holding that caseworker acted within the bounds of substantive due process where there was evidence of abuse and where the statutory precondition that the child be in danger was satisfied
• holding that caseworker acted within the bounds of substantive due process where there was evidence of abuse and where the statutory precondition that the child be in danger was satisfied
• noting that DSS defendants were “entitled to rely on the professional judgments of the ... physicians”
• “If section 1983 liability attaches too readily to removal and placement decisions, the course of public agencies would invariably become one of inaction, thus leaving children in abusive environments!”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).