DUPUY v. McEWEN

No. 07-1655.

495 F.3d 807 (2007)

Belinda DUPUY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Erwin McEWEN, Acting Director, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 31, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Block (submitted), Reed Smith, Jeffrey B. Gilbert, Johnson, Jones, Snelling, Gilbert & Davis, Robert E. Lehrer, Lehrer & Redleaf, Diane Redleaf, Redleaf Law Firm, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

William G. Sullivan (submitted), Martin, Brown & Sullivan, Jack J. Carriglio, Meckler, Bulger & Tilson, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This class action suit by parents, now in its eleventh year, challenges a range of practices by the child-welfare agency of the State of Illinois that are claimed to infringe parental rights protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case has twice been before us. Dupuy v. Samuels, 397 F.3d 493 (7th Cir.2005), 465 F.3d 757 (7th Cir.2006). In the second case, while affirming a...

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