Facts
Where did Randy and Joshua DeShaney move to following the divorce?
Neenah (Winnebago County), Wisconsin
How many years was Randy DeShaney sentenced to in prison after Joshua was diagnosed with permanent brain damage?
4 years
In what year did the Supreme Court vote in the case of DeShaney v. Winnebago County?
1989
"Hit the boy, causing marks, and [was] a prime case for child abuse"
Randy DeShaney's second wife
Whose custody was Joshua placed in after his first visit to the hospital with bruises and abrasions covering his body?
Hospital
Who filed a lawsuit on Joshua's behalf against Winnebago County and DSS arguing that Winnebago County had a constitutional duty to protect Joshua from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and failed him despite being aware of the repeated abuse and neglect?
Melanie DeShaney (Joshua's mother)
What was the Supreme Court's decision?
6-3 held that Winnebago County did not violate Joshua's rights under Due Process Clause
"I just knew the phone would ring some day and Joshua would be dead"
Social worker assigned to Joshua's case (Ann Kemmeter)
Who was the first person to notify DSS of the abuse of Joshua DeShaney?
Randy DeShaney's 2nd wife
Joshua's mother believed both parties violated Joshua's rights under which Amendment?
14th Amendment
Who wrote the majority opinion and who wrote the dissenting opinion?
Majority- Justice William Rehnquist
Minority- Justice William Brennan
"liberty interest in bodily integrity, in violation of his rights under the substantive component of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, by failing to intervene to protect him against his father's violence."
What is the Latin phrase used to describe the team consisting of a pediatrician, a psychologist, a police detective, the county's lawyer, several DSS caseworkers, and various hospital personnel who investigated Joshua's situation after his 1st hospital visit?
ad hoc
Who did the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the U.S Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit both rule in favor of?
Winnebago County
This Justice issued a separate dissent and urged a need for compassion with the Court's decision?
Justice Blackmun
"The Clause is phrased as a limitation on the State's power to act, not as a guarantee of certain minimal levels of safety and security; while it forbids the State itself to deprive individuals of life, liberty, and property without due process of law, its language cannot fairly be read to impose an affirmative obligation on the State to ensure that those interests do not come to harm through other means."
Majority opinion
What was 1 of the 4 terms that Randy DeShaney agreed to keep custody of now 4 year old Joshua?
1. enrollment of Joshua in HeadStart program
2. Randy participate in counseling
3. removal of Randy's girlfriend from home
4. monthly DSS home visits
DSS and the state had a duty to keep Joshua safe due to their involvement, otherwise known as...
a special relationship
Who believed that it was NOT the State's responsibility to provide public services for protection against private actors?
Majority
(Justices Rehnquist, White, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, and Kennedy)
“Poor Joshua,” he lamented, of the poor child who was the victim of attacks yet was denied protection from the Court.
Justice Harry Blackmun