Pepper v. Alexander

How courts have described this case

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• absence of mechanism to control possible misconduct of social workers in removing children from home made absolute immunity unsuitable
• state Department of Human Services employees absolutely immune from damage liability under section 1983 for their decision to file petition for termination of parental rights and for their participation in that proceeding
• state Department of Human Services employees absolutely immune from damage liability under section 1983 for their decision to file petition for termination of parental rights and for their participation in that proceeding
• immunity bars action for malicious prosecution
• immunity bars action for malicious prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).