User:Selket/SCOTUS/Sandbox2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
< User:Selket | SCOTUS
| Selket/SCOTUS/Sandbox2 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||||||||
| Argued November 2-3, 1976 Decided April 19, 1977 |
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
| 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 |
Selket/SCOTUS/Sandbox2, is a case of the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld the disciplinary corporal punishment policy of Florida's public schools.
Contents |
[edit] Background of the case
[edit] The decision
[edit] See also
{{{SeeAlso}}}
[edit] Notes and references
[edit] External links
This article related to the Supreme Court of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
