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Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts.(Review) (book review)
American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by Gormley, William T. Jr.
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Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts. By Susan Gluck Mezey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 209p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
In 1988 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), on behalf of B. H., a 17-yearold youth in foster care, and nearly 20,000 other children forced to live outside their home because of abuse and neglect. Attorneys accused the DCFS, responsible for protecting and placing such children, with violations of Illinois ...
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