United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising out of a child protection caseworker's removal of a child from plaintiffs-parents' home is affirmed where a caseworker and other defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because the caseworker did not violate clearly established law of which a reasonable official would have known.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/28/2006
• Published 06/28/2006

Judges

• HENRY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, McKAY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Clifford Peterson, Office of the Attorney General (Brent A. Burnett, Peggy E. Stone, and Peter L. Rognlie, Assistant Attorneys General, and Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General, on the brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellees.