Legal Opinion
Schwartz v. Booker
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 19, 2012No. 11-1583PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Chief Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a motion to dismiss asserting qualified immunity. At issue is the scope of the special relationship doctrine and whether it would apply to the facts alleged to expose two human services employees to potential individual liability for the death of a seven-year-old child in foster care. 1
After their son, Chandler Grafner, died while in the foster care of Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry, Chandler’s biological parents, Christina Grafner and Joshua Norris, and Melissa R. Schwartz, personal representative and administrator of…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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