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V.S. v. MUHAMMAD

Docket No. 08-5157-cv.

595 F.3d 426 (2010)

V.S., individually and on behalf of her infant child, T.S., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nadira MUHAMMAD, individually and as caseworker, Natalie Arthur, individually and as supervisor, Brenda Wilson, individually and as manager, John B. Mattingly, individually and as Commissioner, City of New York, Defendants-Appellants, and Debra Esernio-Jenssen, individually and as physician; Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Brenner, Of Counsel, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Michael A. Cardozo, Barry P. Schwartz, Of Counsel, Deborah A. Brenner, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Carolyn A. Kubitschek, Lansner & Kubitschek, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before MINER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.

RAKOFF, District Judge:

This case is one of several recent cases concerned with what degree of protection is afforded municipal employees involved in the often thorny process of determining whether to remove an injured child from the custody of the child's parents and bring child abuse charges against the parents.1 We state the pertinent facts most favorably to plaintiff. Skehan v. Vill. of Mamaroneck, 465 F.3d 96...

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