LOFTUS v. CLARK-MOORE

No. 09-14032.

690 F.3d 1200 (2012)

Stephen G. LOFTUS, Dylan Loftus, Minor by and through Stephen G. Loftus, the natural father, guardian and next of friend, Savonna Loftus, Minor by and through Stephen G. Loftus, the natural father, guardian and next of friend, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ester CLARK-MOORE, Myra Ferguson, Defendants-Appellees, United for Families, Inc., Family Preservation Services of Florida, Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 13, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Edward Kuhn , Phillip E. Kuhn, P.A., Lakeland, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Rosemary B. Wilder , Jennifer Anderson Hoffman , Marlow, Connell, Abrams, Adler, Coral Gables, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, District Judge.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal of a grant of qualified immunity concerns whether two social workers violated clearly established federal rights, during an investigation of alleged child abuse, by interviewing a minor without her father's consent and by threatening to remove the minor and a sibling from the father's care. After Stephen Loftus petitioned a Florida court to help him protect his two children from his allegedly abusive former wife, a social worker,...

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