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· 5/25/1994

Sherry Lintz Keith Lintz, Sr. Richele Nicole Jacobs Brian Allen Jacobs and Keith Lintz, Jr., by Next Friend Sherry Lintz v. Linda K. Skipski

Citations

  • 25 F.3d 304
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 13071
  • 1994 WL 236313

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that the Fourteenth Amendment’s “due process [clause] extends the right to be free from the infliction of unnecessary harm to children in state- regulated foster homes.”
  • in case involving social worker’s alleged failure to investigate prior sexual abuse by foster parents’ sons, “[t]he whole affair might have been better handled from the beginning, but that is not the issue. There must be ‘deliberate indifference,’ and there was none”

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Judges: Merritt, Milburn, Siler

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