acted to remove the children from the Mann home. Defs. Mot. 10. “[Government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil dam ages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982); see also Malley v. Briggs, 475 U.S. 335, 341, 106 S.Ct. 1092, 89 L.Ed.2d 271 (1986). Thus, on summary judgment, a court “appropriately may determine, not only the currently applicable law, but whether that law was clearly established at the time an action occurred.” Harlow, 457 U.S. at 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727; see also Davis v. Scherer, 468 U.S. 183, 183, 104 S.Ct. 3012, 82 L.Ed.2d 139 (1984) (<HOLDING>). “If, the law was clearly ' established, the
recognizing a cause of action for damages against officials who violate constitutional or statutory rights under color of federal law recognizing cause of action against federal officials for violation of constitutional rights holding that a plaintiff who seeks damages for violation of constitutional or statutory rights may overcome the defendant officials qualified immunity only by showing that those rights were clearly established at the time of the conductat issue holding that defendant is entitled to qualified immunity because plaintiff failed to allege the violation of a clearly established constitutional right recognizing that qualified immunity shields officials unless the plaintiff demonstrates the defendant violated a constitutional right that was clearly established