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Sixth Circuit· 1/18/2006

Kottmyer v. Maas

Citations

  • 436 F.3d 684
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 1075

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  • holding that the court “need not accept as true ... unwarranted factual inferences”
  • noting that “the right to family integrity, while critically important, is neither absolute nor unqualified”
  • noting that, while “the Supreme Court has yet to articulate the parameters of this right[,]” it is “clear that the right to family integrity, while critically important, is neither absolute nor unqualified”
  • affirming dismissal where “[n]othing in [the plaintiff’s] complaint suggests that” the defendant-hospitals were state actors
  • \[T]he parent-child relation gives rise to a liberty interest that a parent may not be deprived of absent due process of 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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