United States Ninth Circuit

State child services workers, involved in ongoing state court dependency proceedings, enjoy absolute immunity for the placement of a child in a foster home; thus, claim based on the placement of a known sexual predator into a home with small children is not actionable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/2002
• Decided 06/06/2002
• Published 06/06/2002

Judges

• Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, KOZINSKI, O'SCANNLAIN, RYMER, T.G. NELSON, TASHIMA, McKEOWN, FISHER, PAEZ, TALLMAN, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen D. Quinn, Carson City, Nevada, for the defendants-appellants., Calvin R.X. Dunlap and Carolyn Kubitschek, Lansner & Kubitschek, New York, New York, for the plaintiffs-appellees.