EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Are state officials who prevent foster parents from exercising their religious beliefs about discipline immune from damage suits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? We affirm the trial court's decision that the state officials in this case had authority to decide what was best for the foster child, and that they violated no clearly established constitutional rights of the foster parents.
BACKGROUND
In 1978, eight-year-old...
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