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The respondents state that corporal punishment in the school is no part of the criminal process by any view and that is "civil and correctional therapeutic in nature." They stated that unless there is punishment in the 8th amendment sentence the amendment does not apply.

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I believe this Supreme Court decision showed Judicial Restraint as the decision did not actually change any legislation and ruled that Principal Wright's actions were not violations of the Constitution.

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Ingraham v. Wright was a prominent Supreme Court case as it held that corporal punishment in public schools did not violate the 8th amendment which prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. Although this is an extremely outdated practice and is rarely heard of in schools anymore, this still does have the ability to impact us today as corporal punishment is still allowed in public schools.

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The case was dissented by Byron White, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, and John Paul Stevens. Justice White's justification for dissenting was that if only corporal punishment violated the 8th amendment for criminal, than similar punishment are completely inappropriate and cannot be used on students for far less infractions.

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The Court concluded with a 5-4 decision with the majority decision from Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. The Court voted in favor of Florida's laws about students being free of corporal punishment at school which ordered that teachers and administration should now refrain from administering physical punishment. If a teacher or administrator were to not follow, they could be criminalized.

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The petitioners declared that there was a deprivation of constitutional rights and damages to the students from the corporal punishment itself. They also filed a class action for relief on behalf all students in the county of the school the students attended.

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An incident occurred on October 6, 1970 at Charles R. Drew Junior High School where Principal Willie J. Wright took James Ingraham and multiple other defiant students to his office so that he could paddle them. But Ingraham refused to get in the paddling position, so Wright got Assistant Principal Solomon Barnes and Assistant Principal Lemmie Deliford to force and hold Ingraham in the position while Wright stuck him with the paddle 20 times. As a result, Ingraham's mother had to take him to the hospital as he suffered a hematoma because of it. Ingraham and Andrews, a previous student who  had a similar incident, filed a complaint against Wright, Deliford, Barnes and Edwart L. Whigham, the superintendant of the Dade County School System for the stripping of their constitutional rights and damages from the corporal punishment. These complaints jump started the uproar of this supreme court.

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1. Does the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment forbid corporal punishment inflicted by teachers and administrators upon Ingraham and Andrews at Charles R. Drew Junior High School?
2. Does Dade County School System’s corporal punishment policy violate due process?

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The Supreme Court answer was that the 8th amendment does not prevent corporal punishment in pubic schools and the 14th amendment's due process actually was upheld by the laws in Florida.

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Originated from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

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The Fifth Circuit deemed that the punishment of Ingraham and Andrews was so extreme that it violated the 8TH and 14TH amendments and also that the school's corporal punishment policy failed to satisfy due process.

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Warren E. Burger

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William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart Byron White Thurgood Marshall
Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist
John P. Stevens