Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York January 22, 2009 (Alex LL. v. Department of Social Services)

OPINION OF THE COURT

Peters, J.P.

This civil rights action stems from plaintiff’s half-decade *202struggle to gain custody of his son (born in 1995). According to plaintiff, from the time the child was taken into the custody of defendant Department of Social Services of Albany County (hereinafter DSS), DSS, through its caseworkers and supervisors, continuously imposed “frivolous and irrelevant”