LINTZ v. SKIPSKI

No. 93-1430.

25 F.3d 304 (1994)

Sherry LINTZ; Keith Lintz, Sr.; Richele Nicole Jacobs; Brian Allen Jacobs; and Keith Lintz, Jr., by next friend Sherry Lintz, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Linda K. SKIPSKI, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Yingst (argued and briefed), and Holly F. Underwood (briefed), Boothby, Ziprick & Yingst, Berrien Springs, MI, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Charles C. Schettler, Jr. (argued and briefed), Office of the Atty. Gen., Tort Defense Div., Lansing, MI, for defendants-appellees.

James M. Straub (briefed) and John Michael Donahue, Straub, Seaman & Allen, St. Joseph, MI, for defendants.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; and MILBURN and SILER, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, Chief Judge.

In this § 1983 action, the plaintiffs allege abuse of children in a state-licensed foster care home and appeal the district court's order granting summary judgment to the defendant based on qualified immunity, 807 F.Supp. 1299. The defendant, Linda Skipski, a social worker for the Cass County Department of Social Services, placed the plaintiffs, then ages 2, 4 and 5, in a foster home run by Kendall and...

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