The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was wrongly ordered to return or destroy the plaintiffs’ stored blood spots and data that had been collected under Michigan’s newborn health screening program, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

In a suit regarding temporary removal of custody, the U.S. Court of Appeals found that CPS workers have qualified immunity where no clearly established statutory or constitutional rights exist.

A judge was not entitled to judicial immunity after she paused a court hearing to go personally participate in a warrantless search of a litigant’s home.