DOE v. CONN. DEPT. OF CHILD & YOUTH SERVICES

No. 536, Docket 89-7601.

911 F.2d 868 (1990)

John DOE b/k/a Mary Doe, Mary Doe and Frank Doe, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CHILD AND YOUTH SERVICES and Mark J. Marcus, Raymond Farrington, Patricia Simpson, and David Goldner, individually and officially as employees of the Connecticut Department of Child and Youth Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Garrison, New Haven, Conn. (Garrison, Kahn, Silbert & Arterton, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Daniel R. Schaefer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Clarine Nardi Riddle, Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before TIMBERS, NEWMAN, and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal, like van Emrik v. Chemung County Dep't of Social Services, 911 F.2d 863 (2d Cir.1990), decided this day, concerns the availability of the qualified immunity defense in the context of temporary interruption of parental custody. Two parents and their minor child appeal from the May 19, 1989, judgment of the District Court for the District of Connecticut (Peter C. Dorsey, Judge) dismissing...

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