A federal appeals court rejected a father’s claims that the Suffolk County Department of Social Services interfered with his visitation rights and therefore violated his rights to due process by helping the mother and the children move to Mississippi.

A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a March 2015 ruling by Eastern District Judge Leonard Wexler in Uwadiegwu v. Department of Social Services of the County of Suffolk, 14-cv-03219, to dismiss Ajamu Uwadiegwu’s complaint for failure to state a claim.