Anspach ex rel. Anspach v. City of Philadelphia

OPINION

ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge.

Melissa Anspach and her parents (“the Anspachs”) sued the City of Philadelphia and certain employees of the City’s Department of Public Health (“Appellees”) for alleged violations of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to parental guidance, family privacy, and bodily integrity pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The District Court concluded that the claims raised in the Anspachs’s amended complaint have already been litigated in both the district and circuit courts, and dismissed the Anspachs’s federal claims as barred under the doctrine of collateral…