182541P.pdf   08/28/2019  Katelyn Webb  v.  Chelsea Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2541
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Gruender and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiffs had standing to seek damages against 
   the defendant social workers and their supervisors for initiating court 
   proceedings to remove the plaintiffs' children from their custody as any 
   injury plaintiffs suffered was fairly traceable to defendants' actions; 
   plaintiffs lacked standing to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief, 
   which they sought as remedies for their facial attack on the relevant 
   Arkansas statutes, as any injury they asserted was too speculative to form 
   the basis for the relief sought; plaintiffs dismissal of the plaintiffs' 
   facial challenge is affirmed, but on remand, the district court should 
   dismiss the claim without prejudice; the damages claims against the social 
   worker defendants for untimely post-deprivation hearings fail as the 
   defendants did not contribute to the delay as they timely engaged the 
   judicial machinery and lacked authority to file ex parte petitions or to 
   schedule hearings on state court dockets; same claims against the social 
   workers' supervisors fail as the social workers did not cause plaintiffs' 
   harm and the court could not say a policy or custom the supervisors 
   created or applied, or their alleged failure to train or supervise the 
   social workers, did either; the district court erred in applying the 
   Rooker-Feldman doctrine to bar plaintiffs' claim that the social workers 
   violated their rights by seizing their children using ex parte proceedings 
   containing knowingly false allegations, as the state court never issued 
   any judgments in the cases; on remand, the district court should consider 
   whether the claims have any merit.