Legal Opinion
S.M. v. Lincoln County, Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 27, 2017No. 16-3451PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs SÍM., L.M., K.W., and K.S. are former participants in the Adult Drug Court of Missouri’s 45th Judicial Circuit (“Drug Court”), an alternative court established to dispose of drug cases pursuant to Mo, Rev., Stat. §§ 478.001-.006. Plaintiffs brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 damage action against Lincoln County and other defendants, asserting that Scott Edwards, then a lieutenant in the Lincoln County Sheriffs Department, violated their substantive due process rights by committing repeated acts of sexual abuse while serving in his position as the “tracker” (monitor)…
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