United States Tenth Circuit

Plaintiffs adequately alleged that social workers violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when, in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, they entered plaintiffs' house and removed a child from his parents' custody and care without notice and a hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2003
• Published 04/29/2003

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, BALDOCK, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven C. Russell, Affordable Legal Advocates, P.C., Salt Lake City, UT, appearing for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy L. Kemp, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, with her on the brief), Office of the Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, appearing for the Appellees.