Claim of Religious Targeting Against Child Welfare Worker Dismissed

In Glasser v. McCumbers, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7541 (SD WV, Jan 15, 2019), a West Virginia federal district court adopted a magistrate's recommendation (2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 219514, Nov. 30, 2018) and dismissed a suit against a Child Protective Services worker.  Plaintiff, whose child was removed from his custody, alleged that he was was subjected to an Abuse and Neglect charge in part because of the contempt for which the CPS worker Melissa McCumbers held his religious communal living conditions.  The court concluded that McCumbers failed to establish a substantial burden on the exercise of his religion.