Legal Opinion
John Terry, Individually and as the Natural Father and Next Friend of Jaidah Terry, a Minor v. Cherry Richardson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 24, 2003No. 02-1883PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Cherry Richardson, an investigator with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (“DCFS”), told John Terry not to visit his three-year-old daughter, Jaidah, during an investigation into charges that John sexually abused Jaidah. John contends that Richardson acted without appropriate notice or a hearing and without enough evidence and that these shortcomings violated his and Jaidah’s Fourteenth Amendment rights to procedural and substantive due process. A jury found for John and Jaidah (whose claims we can treat as one for purposes of our analysis), and…
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