Larry and Karen Spielman v. Sara C. Hildebrand and Don Madsen

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• concluding that pre- adoptive parents were provided with adequate process where they were provided with a hearing prior to termination of their parental rights and that defendants were entitled to qualified immunity
• explaining that “adoptive parents . . . like natural parents, have a protected liberty interest in their familial relationships with their children”
• denying absolute immunity to a social worker for her decision to remove two children from their home without a hearing because the defendant’s conduct “in no way related to advocacy before a judicial body”
• validity of search and seizure depends on whether officers had probable cause under federal law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).