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212493P.pdf   06/16/2022  Billie Hovick  v.  Darci Patterson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2493
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In this Section 1983 action, plaintiffs, 
   licensed foster parents, alleged defendants failed to afford them an 
   opportunity to be heard on child abuse allegations before issuing a found 
   child abuse report and placing them on the Iowa Child Abuse Registry. The 
   district court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment and 
   plaintiffs appeal. Held: Plaintiffs failed to prove that the law was 
   clearly established such that the defendants should reasonably have been 
   expected to know that an interim finding of child abuse pending the 
   interview of plaintiffs violated plaintiff Billie Hovick's right to due 
   process; as a result, defendants were entitled to summary judgment based 
   on qualified immunity.