Legal Opinion
Stephen G. Loftus v. Ester Clark-Moore
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 13, 2012No. 09-14032PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal of a grant of qualified immunity concerns whether two social workers violated clearly established federal rights, during an investigation of alleged child abuse, by interviewing a minor without her father’s consent and by threatening to remove the minor and a sibling from the father’s care. After Stephen Loftus petitioned a Florida court to help him protect his two children from his allegedly abusive former wife, a social worker, Ester Clark-Moore, investigated the safety and welfare of Loftus’s children, Savonna and Dylan. In the course of her investigation,…
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