United States First Circuit
HATCH v. DEP'T FOR CHILDREN, 01-1442
A case worker may place a child in temporary custody when he/she has evidence giving rise to a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the child has been abused or is in imminent peril of abuse.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/17/2001
- Published 12/17/2001
Judges
- SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and SARIS, District Judge.
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Joseph R. Palumbo, Jr., for appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Linn F. Freedman, Deputy Chief, Civil Division, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General, State of Rhode Island, was on brief, for appellees.