Ingraham v. Wright

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Ingraham v. Wright
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 2-3, 1976 Decided April 19, 1977
Full case name: Ingraham, et al., v. Wright, et al. Citations: 430 U.S. 651; 97 S.Ct. 1401
Holding
The cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment did not apply to corporal punishment as a disciplinary practice in public schools, and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not require notice or a hearing prior to imposition of such punishment, as the state's laws authorized the practice and allowed common law constraints and remedies.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens
Case opinions
Majority by: Powell Joined by: Burger, Stewart, Blackmun, Rehnquist Dissent by: White Joined by: Brennan, Marshall, Stevens Dissent by: Stevens

Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U.S. 651 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the disciplinary corporal punishment policy of Florida's public schools.

[edit] See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 430