Legal Opinion
K.H. ex rel. Murphy v. Morgan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 24, 1990No. 89-3158PublishedCited by 150 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants in this civil rights damages suit (brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983) appeal — as is their right, Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 530, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 2817, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985) — from an order by the district judge rejecting their defense of immunity. The defendants are the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Department's guardianship administrator, and two social workers employed by the Department; together they raised the defense of immunity in a motion to dismiss the complaint. This was a permissible way to…
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