Parents Who Had Children Taken in Police Raid Sue Massachusetts in Federal Court

Parents Who Had Children Taken in Police Raid Sue Massachusetts in Federal Court
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Mass., home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit and the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on Aug. 11, 2017. Photo by Beyond My Ken, GNU Free Documentation License.
Matthew Vadum
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Two parents are suing state and local officials in Massachusetts in federal court for heavy-handed treatment during a bungled investigation into allegations of child abuse that were later discredited.

The plight of the family received national attention in December 2022, when The Washington Post and the magazine Reason told their tale. The family is represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a nonprofit national public interest law firm that challenges governmental overreach.