Richard H. Hatch, Jr. v. Department for Children, Youth and Their Families (State of Rhode Island), Steven Brown and Mary McKee Proposed

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This case comes before us following the district court’s entry of summary judgment adverse to plaintiff-appellant Richard H. Hatch, Jr., and the court’s concomitant refusal to grant leave to amend. On appeal, Hatch challenges only the latter ruling. Concluding, as we do, that amendment would be futile because the qualified immunity of the prospective defendant would render nugatory the proposed amended complaint, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

We divine the following account of the facts from the record below, drawing all reasonable inferences in the appellant’s favor.

In the…