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Columbus Dispatch - Lawsuit against Children Services might break new legal ground Print E-mail

The following article appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on March 6, 2011.

 

Franklin County Children Services works with thousands of parents each year, and many of them get angry about what the agency does - or doesn't do - to help their troubled families.

But there's a big difference between being angry enough to sue and winning a lawsuit against child-welfare workers.

The civil lawsuit currently before a jury in U.S. District Court is a rare example of a complaint that survived the government-immunity and other legal hurdles that protect child-welfare agencies throughout the nation.

 

The rest of the article can be found at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/06/lawsuit-against-childrens-services-might-break-new-ground.html



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