United States Tenth Circuit

The statutory and regulatory provisions governing Titles IV and XX of the Social Security Act preclude a civil rights lawsuit against a state agency over standards governing state child adoption and welfare services.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/22/2001
• Published 08/22/2001

Judges

• Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRIMMER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marcia Robinson Lowry, Susan Lambiase, and Rose E. Firestein of Children's Rights, Inc., New York, NY;  and Robert Levy of Greer, Wissel & Levy P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy V. Flynn-O'Brien of Bryan & Flynn O'Brien, Albuquerque, NM, and Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General and John H. Clough, Assistant Attorney General, New Mexico Attorney General's Office, Albuquerque, NM, for Defendants-Appellees.