Legal Opinion
Eloise Ingraham, as Next Friend, Etc. v. Willie J. Wright, I, Individually, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 29, 1974No. 73-2078PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Senior Circuit Judge:
More than a century ago, a member of the Supreme Court of Indiana made the following observation:
“The husband can no longer moderately chastise his wife; nor, according to the more recent authorities, the master his servant or apprentice. Even the degrading cruelties of the naval service have been arrested. Why the person of the schoolboy, ‘with his shining morning face,’ should be less sacred in the eye of the law than that of the apprentice or the sailor, is not easily explained.”
Cooper v. McJunkin, 1853 (4 Ind. (Porter) 290 (Stuart, J.). In the present case, we…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Ingraham v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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- 12 Fair empl.prac.cas. 836, 11 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 10,755 Jane Monell v. Department of Social Services of the City of New York, DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
- Kenneth A. Johnson v. United States Postal Service and National Rural Letter Carriers AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Eloise Ingraham, as Next Friend, Etc. v. Willie J. Wright, I, Individually, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
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