Ingraham v. Wright - Citizendia

Ingraham v. Wright

Argued November 2-3, 1976
Decided April 19, 1977

Full case name:	Ingraham, et al. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. , 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. The Eighth Amendment ( Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is part of the United States Bill of Rights which took effect in 1791 Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended to Punish a person or change his/her behavior The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and Due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that a person has a right to receive notice and be heard in an orderly proceeding in order to protect his or her The Fourteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post- Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, first

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. Warren Earl Burger ( September 17 1907 – June 25 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 William Joseph Brennan Jr ( April 25, 1906 &ndash July 24, 1997) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Potter Stewart ( January 23 1915 &ndash December 7 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Byron Raymond White ( June 8, 1917 &ndash April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football Running back and as an associate justice of Thurgood Marshall ( July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American Jurist and the first African American Harry Andrew Blackmun ( November 12, 1908 &ndash March 4, 1999) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Lewis Franklin Powell Jr ( September 19, 1907 &ndash August 25, 1998) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1 1924 – September 3 2005 was an American lawyer, jurist, and a political figure who served as an Associate Justice John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is currently the most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 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. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended to Punish a person or change his/her behavior Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and

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