Legal Opinion
T.W. And M.W., Minors, by Their Next Friend, Scott Enk v. Thomas Brophy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 11, 1997No. 96-3512, 96-4136PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
In this suit — a flamboyant abuse of the process of the federal courts — two small children are purported to be seeking damages of $120 million against 24 defendants that constitute a cross-section of the officials and institutions concerned with the provision of social services to children in Milwaukee. The children, who are black, are said to claim that the defendants in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment conspired to remove them for racist reasons from their white foster parents and place them with an aunt (black) who has abused the…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Ankenbrandt Ex Rel. L. R. v. RichardsSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Costello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- In Re BurrusSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
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