Lois Millspaugh and Tina Dyson v. County Department of Public Welfare of Wabash County

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there is no parallel to the Brady requirement of disclosing exculpatory evidence in civil litigation
• explaining that a social worker’s application for a child-custody order “was much like a police officer’s affidavit seeking a search warrant, . . . which . . . falls outside the scope of absolute immunity”
• “Sallying forth to collect the children is no different from seizing evidence on the authority of a warrant, which again is covered by qualified immunity only.”
• stating \[t]here is so far no parallel to Brady in civil litigation\
• stating “[t]here is so far no parallel to Brady in civil litigation”
• county child welfare worker who initiated petitions for removal of child from mother’s custody entitled to qualified immunity because plaintiff did not identify what clearly established rights had been violated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).