Legal Opinion
Southerland v. Woo
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 10, 2014No. 99 Civ. 3329(BMC)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED MEMORANDUM DECISION
COGAN, District Judge.
This is an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 brought by a father and his now-grown children for damages against Timothy Woo, a former caseworker for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (“ACS”). Plaintiffs alleged essentially two claims stemming from their removal from the family home in 1997: (1) Woo made false statements or omitted crucial information in an affidavit in order to obtain a Family Court order allowing entry into the family home (the “Entry Order”), thus resulting in a violation of plaintiffs’ rights under the…
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