Ingraham v. Wright was a case where the Supreme Court had ruled (5-4 vote), on April 19, 1977, that corporal punishment in public schools did not violate constitutional rights. The case was brought up into court when an eighth grade student of a public junior high school in Florida, James Ingraham, who was paddled in 1970 by the principal Willie J. Wright and was also restrained by the assistant principal and the principal’s assistant (Lemmie Deliford, Solomon Barnes). James was hit by the paddle more than 20 times and required medical attention, later on a complaint was filed in 1971, other than Ingraham and a student named Roosevelt Andrews, another student has also been paddled. The complaint claims that the use of corporal punishment goes against the 8th Amendment, stating that it is a violation on the ban of ‘cruel and unusual punishments’, and the 14th Amendment which requires prior notice and an opportunity to be heard.…