United States Ninth Circuit

Noncustodial grandparents, acting as de facto parents to grandchildren who are dependents of the juvenile court, do not have a substantive due process right to family integrity and association with those grandchildren. Placing the grandfather's name on the California Child Abuse Central Index did not constitute a denial of procedural due process.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2003
• Decided 01/22/2004
• Published 01/22/2004

Judges

• RYMER, Circuit Judge., Before BRIGHT,D.W. NELSON, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roderick L. MacKenzie,MacKenzie & Brody, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer E. Duggan, Terence J. Cassidy, Avery E. Dority, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant, Sacramento, California, for the defendants-appellees.