Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 21, 1987.
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide whether a reckless failure by Wisconsin welfare authorities to protect a child from a parent's physical abuse deprives the child of liberty or property within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Since the case was dismissed on summary judgment, we state the facts as favorably to the plaintiffs as the record will allow. The principal...
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