United States Tenth Circuit

A claim based upon a Fourteenth Amendment deprivation is not proper against non-public defendants not acting under color of state law, thus a putative father's claim based on termination of parental rights, against the biological mother, adoptive parents and an adoption center, were not actionable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2002
• Published 06/18/2002

Judges

• ALDISERT, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, ALDISERT, and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• C. Robert Collins of Collins & Collins, Phoenix, AZ, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karra J. Porter (Barton H. Kunz II with her on the brief) of Christensen & Jensen, P.C., Salt Lake City, UT, for Adoption Center of Choice Defendant-Appellee., Phillip E. Lowry of Howard, Lewis & Petersen, Provo, UT, for sealed Defendants-Appellees.