981732P.pdf   09/13/2000  S.S.  v.  Michelle McMullen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  98-1732
   Western District of Missouri   
   Civil case - civil rights. In action alleging state defendants violated 
   minor plaintiff's civil rights when they released her from state custody 
   and returned her to her father although they had notice that he was 
   allowing her to have contact with a known pedophile who had twice 
   sodomized her, district court did not err in granting state defendants' 
   motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim; defendants' actions did 
   not increase the risk of significant harm to plaintiff because they merely 
   placed her back into the situation from which they had originally 
   retrieved her; even assuming that state had acted affirmatively to place 
   her in danger, the state's actions did not rise to the level of egregiousness 
   required to support a claim for a substantive due process violation; 
   dissent by Judge John Gibson, joined by Chief Judge Wollman, and 
   Circuit Judge McMillian.
  
981732P.pdf   07/21/1999  S.S.  v.  Michelle McMullen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  98-1732
   Western District of Missouri   
   Civil case - civil rights. Minor who had been placed at risk of 
   molestation by Division of Family Service's decision to place her 
   with her father stated a claim under the state-created danger theory.