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Ingraham vs Wright
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Ingraham v. Wright
Samantha, Melanie
On October 1, 1970, Assistant Principal Solomon Barnes applied corporal punishment to Roosevelt Andrews and fifteen other boys in a restroom at Charles R. Drew Junior High School.
Circumstances
What happend?
What happened?
A teacher had accused Andrews of tardiness, but Andrews claimed he still had two minutes to get to class when he was seized. When Andrews resisted paddling, Barnes struck him on the arm, back, and across the neck.
Principal Willie J. Wright removed James Ingraham and several other disruptive students to his office, where he paddled eight to ten of them. When Ingraham refused a paddling position, Wright called on Barnes and Assistant Principal Lemmie Deliford to hold Ingraham in a prone position while Wright administered twenty blows.
Who was involved?
The following court members were involved in this case:
Burger, Bennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens
Wright, Deliford, Barnes and Edwart L. Whigham, and the superintendent of the Dade County School System were all reported, stating they were involved by Ingraham and Andrews after they filed a complaint against them.
In November 1976 the case was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. the Court ruled that the cruel and unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment applied only to convicted criminals and therefore could not be violated in the corporal punishment of schoolchildren. The case desision was 5-4.
The complaint claimed that the practice of corporal punishment in public schools violated both the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of procedural due process. A district court dismissed the complaint, and the decision was upheld by the court of appeals.