United States Tenth Circuit

Social services employees were entitled to qualified immunity in adoptive parents' 42 U.S.C. section 1981 and 1983 suit for failure to conduct a proper inquiry into abuse by a child's natural parents, where employees' conduct did not reflect invidious discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2003
• Published 05/15/2003

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, KELLY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs: , Richard D. Loffswold, Jr., Girard, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah June Purce, Topeka, KS, for Defendant-Appellee Mary Keady, and Matthew W. Boddington, Topeka, KS, for Defendant-Appellee Wayne Sramek.