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GOTTLIEB v. COUNTY OF ORANGE

No. 93 Civ. 0466 (VLB).

871 F.Supp. 625 (1994)

Andrew GOTTLIEB and Jean Gottlieb, individually and as the natural parents of infants Dawn Gottlieb and Lee Gottlieb, Plaintiffs, v. The COUNTY OF ORANGE, the Orange County Department of Social Services, Esther Coppola in her individual capacity and in her official capacity as an employee of the County of Orange and the Orange County Department of Social Services, Linda E. Douthart in her individual capacity and in her official capacity as a supervisory employee of the County of Orange and the Orange County Department of Social Services, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 15, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson M. Farber, Akst & Akst, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Phyllis Ingram, MacCartney, MacCartney, Kerrigan & MacCartney, Nyack, NY, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.

I

This civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 implicates the tension between familial privacy and the protection of children from sexual abuse. The dispute arises from a direction to an allegedly abusive father to leave his home where he had a 5-year old girl and a 4-year old son, or face removal of his daughter; the issue is whether the investigation leading to the direction...

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