J.B. v. Washington County

HENRY, Circuit Judge.

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, plaintiff J.B., individually and for her minor child L.B., alleges that defendant, Washington County, violated J.B.’s and L.B.’s constitutional rights when County employees, acting under the authority of an ex parte order, seized L.B. for approximately eighteen hours. The purpose of this seizure was to obtain an interview with the child outside her parents’ presence to investigate a report that the child’s father had sexually abused her. Both parties submitted motions for summary judgment. The district court granted summary judgment to…