Legal Opinion
Hall v. Tawney
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1980No. 78-1553PublishedCited by 201 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs — Naomi Faye Hall, a minor, and her parents, Faye Elizabeth Hall and Bervin E. Hall — appeal the dismissal of their action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various officials and employees of the school system of West Virginia, for alleged violation of their constitutional rights by the infliction of disciplinary corporal punishment upon Naomi, a student in the system. We affirm in part, reverse and remand in part.
I
The action arose from an incident occurring on December 6, 1974 in which Naomi, then a student at Left Hand Grade School in…
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