Thursday, October 18th, 2007

9th Cir: Social Worker Immunity under Section 1983

Same issue was recently before the Alaska Supreme Court
The 9th Circuit has referred the issue of social worker immunity from ยง 1983 claims to an en banc panel.
In Beltran v. Santa Clara County, 491 F.3d 1097 (9th Cir. 2007), earlier this summer, a three-judge panel held that a social worker who allegedly submitted a […]