YOUNT v. MILLINGTON

No. 13787.

869 P.2d 283 (1993)

117 N.M. 95

Kathleen YOUNT, for herself and on behalf of her minor son, Shane P., Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Michaele MILLINGTON, Angela Adams, Rosemary Roybal, and Virginia Gilmer, individually and as officials of the New Mexico Human Services Department, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied February 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Gross, C. Bryant Rogers, Roth, VanAmberg, Gross, Rogers & Ortiz, Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee.

Emily A. Franke, James P. Lyle, Deborah D. Wells, Butt, Thornton & Baehr, P.C., Albuquerque, Mark A. Basham, Legal Bureau, Risk Management Div., Santa Fe, for defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.


OPINION

PICKARD, Judge.

This case involves a civil rights action pursuant to the federal Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 (1982). It is brought by Plaintiff for herself and on behalf of her minor son against a New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) social worker, the social worker's supervisor, and the chief Children's Court attorney for the HSD. The action was brought because of Defendants' extraterritorial seizure of Plaintiff's child...

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