Burton v. Bd. of Educ. of Pasadena

Opinion

HASTINGS, J.

This is an appeal from an order denying a preliminary injunction sought by appellants (six adults and six minor children) to prevent the Pasadena City Board of Education, the governing body of the Pasadena Unified School District, from transferring the minor appellants from the fundamental schools which they then attended to regular district schools solely on the ground that their parents had refused or withdrawn written permission for school personnel to use corporal punishment against the minors. In addition, five of the adult appellants, as taxpayers whose property taxes…