Legal Opinion
Dumont v. Lyon
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 14, 2018No. Case No. 17-cv-13080PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL D. BORMAN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Plaintiffs filed their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Complaint challenging Defendants Nick Lyon (sued in his official capacity as the Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services "DHHS") and Herman McCall's (sued in his official capacity as the Executive Director of the Michigan Children's Services Agency "CSA") practice of permitting state-contracted and taxpayer-funded child placing agencies to use religious criteria to screen prospective foster and adoptive parents for children in the foster care system. Plaintiffs are prospective adoptive…
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