Rhode Island Laborers' v. Rhode Island State Labor Rel. Brd, 97-3841 (2000)

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• denying absolute immunity to social workers who allegedly fabricated evidence during an investigation and made false statements in a dependency petition affidavit
• allowing a section 1983 action to proceed against 5 social workers for allegedly providing perjured testimony in a dependency proceeding that 6 resulted in a mother losing custody
• allowing a section 1983 action to proceed against 7 social workers for allegedly providing perjured testimony in a dependency proceeding that 8 resulted in a mother losing custody
• affirming the district court’s determination that government- employed social workers were not entitled to qualified immunity where they used perjured testimony and fabricated evidence to support the termination of a parent’s right to custody of her child
• affirming the determination of the district court that perjury by government-employed social workers and the use of false evidence were incompatible with the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of due process in court and thus defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity
• “[T]he knowing use of false evidence [is] absolutely and obviously 10 irreconcilable with the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of Due Process in our courts.”

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