CALDERON v. KANSAS DEPT. OF SOCIAL & REHAB. SERV.

No. 98-3183.

181 F.3d 1180 (1999)

Maria Del Carmen CALDERON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND REHABILITATION SERVICES; Rochelle Chronister, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services; Carol Bacon, Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Juvenile Department, Sedgwick County, Kansas, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Mendoza (Amalia S. Rioja, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Chicago, Illinois, and Ladessa De La Cruz, De La Cruz & Doran, Wichita, Kansas, with her on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John R. Dowell, Assistant Attorney General, Topeka, Kansas (Carla J. Stovall, Attorney General, Topeka, Kansas, and C. William Ossmann, Chief of Litigation, Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Topeka, Kansas, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge, MAGILL and EBEL, Circuit Judges.


SEYMOUR, Chief Judge.

Ms. Calderon filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Kansas, Rochelle Chronister as Secretary of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS), and Carol Bacon, a state court judge. In response to defendants' motions, the district court dismissed the action on various grounds including Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim. Ms. Calderon appeals and we affirm.

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