ELLIS v. HAMILTON

No. 81-1079.

669 F.2d 510 (1982)

Amy Frances ELLIS, Zella Fern Frazier and Victor Frazier, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Francis N. HAMILTON, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 1, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 31, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Ogden, Wilcox, Ogden & Dumond, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. D. Calbert, Calbert & Bremer, Greencastle, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and WILL, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 31, 1982.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injunctive relief and damages against several welfare and judicial officers (including a judge) in Putnam County, Indiana. The plaintiffs claim that their rights under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated by these officers in connection with proceedings that led to the plaintiffs' grandchildren (as we shall...

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