Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Due Process Clause - Civil Rights - Section 1983 - Corporal Punishment

Authors

Richard A. Stevens

Abstract

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. § 1983 for deprivation of the fourteenth amendment right to bodily security.

Hall v. Tawney, 621 F.2d 607 (4th Cir. 1980).

First Page

801

Recommended Citation

Richard A. Stevens, Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Due Process Clause - Civil Rights - Section 1983 - Corporal Punishment, 19 Duq. L. Rev. 801 (1981).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol19/iss4/9