Meyers v. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas

In this case the parents of a minor child challenge the constitutionality of the procedures used in juvenile court to temporarily remove their child to the physical custody of the county department of children services pending a hearing on the merits of the agency’s request for temporary custody. This appeal requires us to determine whether the district court properly dismissed the case on the basis of the Younger abstention doctrine. Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). We hold that the court properly dismissed without prejudice the parents’ claims for…