Legal Opinion
Amy Frances Ellis, Zella Fern Frazier and Victor Frazier v. Francis N. Hamilton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 1, 1982No. 81-1079PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injunctive relief and damages against several welfare and judicial officers (including a judge) in Putnam County, Indiana. The plaintiffs claim that their rights under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated by these officers in connection with proceedings that led to the plaintiffs’ grandchildren (as we shall call them without meaning thereby to prejudge their status, which is contested) being removed from the plaintiffs’ homes and adopted by strangers. The district court granted summary judgment for the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Moore v. City of East ClevelandSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by120 opinions
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- Weller v. Department Of Social Services For The City Of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1990
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