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Submitted: September 21, 2009

Before MURPHY, JOHN R. GIBSON, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

This interlocutory appeal is the latest battle in a nearly decade-old conflict between Heartland Christian Academy (HCA) and the State of Missouri. The two notfor-profit corporations that own and operate HCA, Heartland Academy Community Church (HACC) and CNS International Ministries, Inc. (CNS), six former HCA students (Students), and thirteen parents of former HCA students (Parents) (collectively, Heartland) are suing twelve Missouri juvenile officials (Officials) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.*fn1 Heartland alleges the Officials conspired to raid HCA’s campus and seize scores of its students in 2001, in violation of the United States Constitution. The Officials maintain they are entitled to qualified immunity, but the district court*fn2 denied their motions for summary judgment. To the extent we have jurisdiction over the Officials’ interlocutory appeal, we affirm.

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