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PFOLTZER v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX

Civ. A. No. 90-1706-A.

775 F.Supp. 874 (1991)

Gloria PFOLTZER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

October 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. DiJoseph, Slatter & DiJoseph, Arlington, Va., for plaintiffs.

Edward E. Rose III, Asst. County Atty., Fairfax, Va., Jessie James Jr., Burke, Va., for defendants.

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...

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