Legal Opinion
Pfoltzer v. County of Fairfax
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided October 11, 1991No. Civ. A. 90-1706-APublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Among the state’s many powers, none is more fearsome than the power to take a child away from a parent. Challenged exercises of this power deserve close judicial scrutiny. This, in general, describes the case at bar. It is a case in which a mother and her children claim that -the state violated their federal constitutional rights when it removed the children from their parents’ custody and placed them in foster care, where they were allegedly abused and deprived of the right to the free exercise of their religion.
More particularly, this is an action…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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- Lintz v. SkipskiDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1992
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