Pittman v. Cuyahoga County Department of Children & Family Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a social worker accused of making numerous misrepresentations in a child-abuse complaint and two supporting affidavits enjoyed absolute immunity because she was acting “in her capacity as a legal advocate” when she submitted those documents
• finding social worker was entitled to absolute prosecutorial immunity for involvement in judicial child support proceedings
• stating “[b]ecause the juvenile court has the ultimate decisionmaking power with respect to placement and custody, it alone could deprive [plaintiff] of his fundamental right
• finding social worker was entitled to absolute prosecutorial immunity for involvement in judicial child support proceedings
• dismissing the parent’s substantive due process claim against the social worker because “to the extent that [the parent] suffered a deprivation of his fundamental right to family integrity, that deprivation was perpetrated by the juvenile court, not by [the social worker]”
• applying the strict scrutiny standard but relying on pre-Lewis case law that divided substantive due process claims against executive agents into two types, those based on violations of particular constitutional guarantees and those that shock the conscience

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).