When will these be people be investigated, convicted, and sentenced?
January 17, 2017Here’s a pretty horrifying story in the State-Is-Not-Your-Friend category.
Some social workers in California presumably lied and falsified evidence about a case involving taking a mother’s children from her custody. What the article doesn’t say, unfortunately, is whether these people are being investigated for those crimes.
You really need to read the whole thing. (Emphasis in the original.)
Judges Reject Orange County’s Claim That Social Workers Didn’t Know Lying In Court Was Wrong
Using taxpayer funds, government officials in Orange County have spent the last 16 years arguing the most absurd legal proposition in the entire nation: How could social workers have known it was wrong to lie, falsify records and hide exculpatory evidence in 2000 so that a judge would forcibly take two young daughters from their mother for six-and-a-half years?
From the you-can’t-make-up-this-crap file, county officials are paying Lynberg & Watkins, a private Southern California law firm specializing in defending cops in excessive force lawsuits, untold sums to claim the social workers couldn’t have “clearly” known that dishonesty wasn’t acceptable in court and, as a back up, even if they did know, they should enjoy immunity for their misdeeds because they were government employees.
A panel at the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week ruled on Orange County’s appeal of federal judge Josephine L. Staton’s refusal last year to grant immunity to the bureaucrats in Preslie Hardwick v. County of Orange, a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages. In short, judges Stephen S. Trott, John B. Owens and Michelle T. Friedland were not amused. They affirmed Staton’s decision.
But to grasp the ridiculousness of the government’s stance, read key, Oct. 7, 2016 exchanges between the panel and Pancy Lin, a partner at Lynberg & Watkins. […]
And pity the Orange County taxpayers who are paying attorneys to defend these people.
No Truce With Kings 
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