PRIGGE v. RAGAGLIA

(SC 16787)

265 Conn. 338 (2003)

CHAD PRIGGE ET AL. v. KRISTINE RAGAGLIA, COMMISSIONER OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released August 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eliot D. Prescott, assistant attorney general, with whom were Gregory T. D'Auria, associate attorney general, and, on the brief, Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan T. Pearlman and John E. Tucker, assistant attorneys general, for the appellants (defendants).

Robert T. Rimmer, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

Sullivan, C.J., and Borden, Norcott, Palmer and Vertefeuille, Js.


Opinion

BORDEN, J.

This appeal presents another chapter in the custody dispute set forth in In re Joshua S., 260 Conn. 182, 796 A.2d 1141 (2002). The dispositive issue in this appeal1 is whether the trial court properly denied the defendants' motion to dismiss, concluding that sovereign immunity does not bar an action for monetary damages...

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