Legal Opinion
Bayer v. Monroe County Children and Youth Services
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 14, 2009No. 07-4267PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Chief Judge.
In this action brought principally under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, at issue is whether defendants, a social worker for the Monroe County Children and Youth Services and her supervisor, are entitled to absolute or qualified immunity in connection with an allegedly unconstitutional delay in holding a dependency hearing after the agency removed children from their mother’s custody. The District Court determined defendants were entitled to neither form of immunity, and denied their request for summary judgment on those grounds. We disagree and will reverse,…
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