Legal Opinion
David Glen Meyers v. Contra Costa County Department of Social Services, Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 16, 1987No. 85-2127PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal we must decide whether a social service worker performing duties related to the filing of child custody and abuse proceedings has absolute prosecutorial immunity. We must also decide whether principles of quasi-judicial immunity apply to court employees participating under court directives in the resolution of family disputes.
The plaintiffs are David Meyers, his children and his parents. They brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against David’s former wife Amy, and numerous individual and governmental defendants. They claimed that the…
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- Davis v. SchererSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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