WRIGHT v. O'DAY

No. 12-5261.

706 F.3d 769 (2013)

Tonia WRIGHT, as mother and next friend of D.W., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathryn O'DAY, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services; William Haslam, Governor of the State of Tennessee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

February 8, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Melanie Stepp Lane , Jamestown, Tennessee, for Appellant. Alexander S. Rieger , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: GUY and ROGERS, Circuit Judges; HOOD, District Judge.


OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

The district court in this case dismissed for lack of justiciability the procedural due process challenge to the placement of a thirteen-year-old boy on the Tennessee child-abuse registry. The claim was brought by the boy's mother as next friend. Plaintiff has standing to seek additional procedures because those procedures, if granted, could result in relief that is sufficiently concrete and particularized. The classification...

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