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Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Due Process Clause - Civil Rights - Section 1983 - Corporal Punishment, Richard A. Stevens
Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Due Process Clause - Civil Rights - Section 1983 - Corporal Punishment, Richard A. Stevens
Duquesne Law Review
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held that a public school student severely injured by the use of disciplinary corporal punishment can press substantive due process claims under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 for deprivation of the fourteenth amendment right to bodily security.
Hall v. Tawney, 621 F.2d 607 (4th Cir. 1980).