Legal Opinion
DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 22, 1989No. 87-154PublishedCited by 4,317 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Petitioner is a boy who was beaten and permanently injured by his father, with whom he lived. Respondents are social workers and other local officials who received complaints that petitioner was being abused by his father and had reason to believe that this was the case, but nonetheless did not act to remove petitioner from his father’s custody. Petitioner sued respondents claiming that their failure to act deprived him of his liberty in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We hold that it did not.
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