Walsh v. Erie County Department of Job & Family Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that parents did not have a “cognizable claim for interference with the parent-child relationship because the defendants’ conduct was not directed specifically toward disruption of the family relationship”
• granting summary judgment to defendant where plaintiffs failed to show defendants intentionally acted to diminish or deprive plaintiffs’ right to family integrity
• “[E]ven if [the police chief] exercised his discretion to violate plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights, his was not a decision of the [municipality].... ”
• “[A]ssertions to the contrary notwithstanding, [there is] no social worker exception to the strictures of the Fourth Amendment.”
• “[A]ssertions to the contrary notwithstanding, [there is] no social worker exception to the strictures of the Fourth Amendment.”
• “Ohio law did not require the defendants to act as they did, and they cannot take refuge behind their misapplication of that law to avoid liability to the plaintiffs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).