Legal Opinion
Vania Minor, Individually and as Mother, Natural Guardian and Next Best Friend of D.A. v. State of Iowa, Becky Grabe, Individually and Cleo Hester, Individually
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided June 15, 2012No. 09–1010PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIGGINS, Justice.
The State filed a child in need of assistance (CINA) petition. The juvenile court issued a temporary removal order, removing the child from her mother’s custody and placing her in foster care. After the CINA proceeding was dismissed, the mother sued the State of Iowa and two employees of the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2000) and Iowa Code chapter 669 (2005), the Iowa Tort Claims Act (ITCA), alleging the DHS social workers wrongfully removed the child from her custody and negligently failed to protect the child from abuse by a foster…
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