Legal Opinion
Engstrom v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided September 19, 1990No. 89-1288PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHULTZ, Justice.
This litigation was commenced by a married couple, Howard and Dorothy Eng-strom, and their minor son, Michael Eng-strom, against the State of Iowa and five state-employed social workers. Plaintiffs allege several theories of recovery precipitated by the Iowa Department of Human Services’ placement of a ten-year-old child, Melody Ehmke, in their home for purposes of an adoption that later failed. The district court sustained defendants’ motion for summary judgment-and dismissed the ease. We affirm.
Melody was born in California on July 28, 1974, to Denise and Michael Ehmke. The…
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