Ingraham v. Wright 430 U.S. 651 (1977). Ingraham v. Wright is a landmark case with a significant impact on the jurisprudence of this court, specifically regarding individual rights of students in public school districts. This case explicitly examines individual rights under the lens of procedural due process, substantive due process, and the Eighth Amendment. I intend to argue that corporal punishment in schools is not a violation of an individual’s constitutional rights. The case represents two counts of corporal punishment inflicted within the Dade County School System. On October 1st, 1970, defending Assistant Principal of Charles R. Drew Junior High School, Solomon Barnes, applied corporal punishment against 15 boys in a restroom; including petitioner Roosevelt Andrews. Andrews had been accused of tardiness, although he claims that he had 2 minutes remaining until the bell …show more content…
Whigham. They also filed a class action on behalf of all students within the school system for declaratory and injunctive relief. The petitioners claimed that their constitutional rights had been deprived, given the drastic measures of corporal punishment of which they were victims. In trial court, the case was dismissed - evidence provided for the first two cases was not sufficient, and the third case showed no right to relief. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed, stating that corporal punishment as applied was a violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the school system’s failure to satisfy due process. The en banc court rejected the appeal, affirming the judgment of the trial court. The en banc court stated that corporal punishment was not forbidden by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and that due process did not require students to receive notice or be given an opportunity to be