STEM v. AHEARN

No. 89-2956.

908 F.2d 1 (1990)

Stephen C. STEM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ralph AHEARN and Chris Card, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sue Berkel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Patrick J. Fenney, Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Tort Lit. Div., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

John K. Grubb, Grubb & Dicecco, Chari Harnett-Kiger, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, SMITH, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This civil rights action follows an acrimonious child-custody dispute, with one parent leveling charges of child molestation against her former husband. Child protective services workers investigated and concluded, despite medical evidence to the contrary, that the father had sexually abused his minor daughter. As a consequence of this investigation, the mother secured a temporary state court order certifying herself as the exclusive...

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