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LOSSMAN v. PEKARSKE

No. 82-2197.

707 F.2d 288 (1983)

Thomas C. LOSSMAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mary H. PEKARSKE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Dan Bell, Jr., Bell Law Office, S.C., Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Maris Rushevics, Anderson, Fisher, Shannon, O'Brien & Rice, Stevens Point, Wis., Daniel W. Hildebrand, Ross & Stevens, P.C., Madison, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This suit by Thomas Lossman and his three children charges that the defendants —county welfare and law-enforcement officers in Wisconsin—deprived the plaintiffs of liberty without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, by removing the children from Lossman's custody without good cause. They seek damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

Lossman was divorced from the mother of his three children but had...

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