CHRISSY F. BY MEDLEY v. MISSISSIPPI DPW

No. 90-1332.

925 F.2d 844 (1991)

CHRISSY F., By her next friend and Guardian ad litem Donna MEDLEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Steel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mike Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for all defendants-appellants except Douglass.

Thomas D. McNeese, Aultman, Tyner, McNeese & Ruffin, Ltd., Columbia, Miss., for Richard L. Douglass.

Daniel S. Mason, Furth, Fahrner & Mason, Sheila Brogna, Children's Law Offices, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges:


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

An eight-year-old child seeks injunctive and declaratory relief against two judges, a state district attorney, and various state and county welfare departments and their employees, as well as damages from the district attorney and the welfare department employees, alleging that each of them in various ways failed to report, investigate, or take any action in response to repeated reports that she had been sexually abused by her father...

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