103411P.pdf   09/14/2011  Lisa Schmidt  v.  Des Moines Public Schools
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-3411
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Murphy and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. Fact that plaintiff lived in a different state 
   from her children did not suffice to convert the loss of a three-hour visit 
   into the deprivation of a fundamental right for purposes of substantive due
   process; even if plaintiff could show a deprivation of a fundamental liberty
   interest in visiting her children, the police officers' alleged conduct would
   not shock the conscience where they tried to intercede in a contentious
   custody dispute involving a court-ordered visitation that the children were
   unwilling to attend; post-deprivation remedies, such as contempt, were
   adequate to satisfy procedural due process where visitation was interfered
   with; divorce decree restricted plaintiff's visitation to a specific schedule
   and allowed her to exercise visitation outside of those times only with her
   ex-husband's assent, and plaintiff had no fundamental liberty interest in
   contacting her children at school; school district's interpretation of the
   decree was reasonable and not actionable as a substantive due process
   claim; school district did not violate plaintiff's procedural due process
   rights by declining requests for information as plaintiff had a procedural
   remedy through making a formal written request for information; plaintiff,
   who does not have primary physical custody of her children is not
   similarly situated to a married parent who has physical custody.