Preslie Hardwick v. Marcia Vreeken

OPINION

TROTT, Senior Circuit Judge:

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Exposition

Pursuant to an order of the Superior Court of Orange County California, arising from acrimonious juvenile dependency proceedings, Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick lost custody of her minor children, Preslie and Kendall. In this subsequent civil rights action brought' under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Preslie' Hardwick sued the County and employees of its Social Services Agency (“SSA”). She contends that the social worker employees acting under color of state' law maliciously used perjured testimony and fabricated evidence to secure her removal from her mother, and…