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LESHER v. LAVRICH

No. 84-3930.

784 F.2d 193 (1986)

Alice LESHER and Charles Lesher, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The Hon. Frank G. LAVRICH; Wellington Chapman, Director, Geauga County Department of Welfare; Ruth Baker, Toby Freeman, Brad Welch, and Barbara Griffin, Geauga County Department of Welfare; and Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Ohio, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1986.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Fertel, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Steven G. Janik, Ulmer Berne, Laronge, Glickman & Curtis, Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Atty. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, Jeffrey J. Jurca, Richard A. Green, for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, WELLFORD, Circuit Judge, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

BAILEY BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellants, the natural mother and step-father of two allegedly "neglected" or "dependent" minor children, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking to compel the State of Ohio to return their children to their custody. Appellants alleged that portions of Ohio's child protection law, Oh.Code Ann. § 2151.01 et seq. (Page 1976), were unconstitutional, either on...

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