K.H. THROUGH MURPHY v. MORGAN

No. 89-3158.

914 F.2d 846 (1990)

K.H., through her next friend and guardian ad litem, Patrick T. MURPHY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary T. MORGAN, Guardianship Administrator, Department of Children and Family Services, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick T. Murphy, Jeanette DeGrange, R. Jane Burwell, Susan T. Pierce, Kathleen G. Kennedy, and Mary Burns, Office of the Public Guardian, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Jeffrey W. Finke, Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before WOOD, Jr., POSNER, and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendants in this civil rights damages suit (brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983) appeal — as is their right, Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 530, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 2817, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985) — from an order by the district judge rejecting their defense of immunity. The defendants are the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Department's guardianship...

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