Kottmyer v. Maas

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• concluding that allegation that hospital and social worker were subject to state licensing was insufficient to support finding that defendants were acting under color of state law
• holding that where additional factual allegations in a motion to amend do not further the plaintiff’s constitutional claims, amendment is futile and the motion to amend is properly denied under Rule 15(a)
• noting that right to family integrity “is limited by an equal[ly] compelling governmental interest in the protection of children, particularly where the children need to be protected from their own parents”
• allegation that hospital and social worker were subject to state licensing was insufficient to support finding that defendants were acting under color of state law
• allegation that hospital and social worker were subject to state licensing was insufficient to support finding that defendants were acting under color of state law
• allegation that hospital was subject to state licensing was insufficient to support finding it was acting under color of state law

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