Legal Opinion
Callahan v. Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 5, 1994No. 2:93-cv-04250PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
VAN ANTWERPEN, District Judge.
On August 6, 1993, plaintiffs, John and Linda Callahan, filed this action, individually and on behalf of their son Michael, alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“§ 1983”) and various state law tort claims 1 against all defendants. The gravamen of their charges is that they were temporarily wrongly deprived of custody of Michael because of unsubstantiated allegations of child abuse. The allegations were based on information obtained primarily through facilitative commu-mcation, a method of commumcating with autistic children. The defendants…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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