United States Eighth Circuit

A social worker's comments to plaintiffs that plaintiffs would not get their children back unless the mother agreed to be sterilized violated plaintiff's due process right to be free from coerced sterilization without appropriate procedural safeguards.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2001
• Published 06/22/2001

Judges

• VIETOR, Senior District Judge., Before BOWMAN and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and VIETOR, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Virginia Hurtubise Murray, argued, Jefferson City, MO, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James M. Skinner, Liberty, MO (Leary G. Skinner, on the brief), for appellee.