Barbara Marks v. Wanda Hudson

LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:

A mother and her three minor children sued two employees of the state's child protective services agency. They claimed a violation of the constitution stemming from the defendants' taking of the three children from their mother's custody under a temporary removal order. The district court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the claims based on qualified immunity. The defendants brought an interlocutory appeal. We conclude the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because there was no constitutional violation. We REVERSE and REMAND in order to…