Legal Opinion
Sansone v. Bechtel
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided March 18, 1980PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtParskey, J.
The single issue raised by this appeal is whether a public school teacher who inflicts exces sive corporal punishment upon a pupil is immunized from liability. The trial court’s resolution of this issue against the teacher generated this appeal.
The defendant is a music teacher at the Jared Eliot School in Clinton. The plaintiff, Kenneth Sansone, twelve years of age, was a student in the defendant’s class. One day Kenneth and three other boys were misbehaving in class by interposing improvised sounds in a song which the class was supposed to sing in unison. Before this event Kenneth had never…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Spring v. ConstantinoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1975
- Conley v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1956
- Welch v. DurandSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1869
- Lentine v. McAvoySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1927
- Bronson & Townsend Co. v. BattistoniSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1974
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Shay v. RossiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2000
- Green v. DonroeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
- Town of Cheshire v. McKenneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
- Willoughby v. LehrbassMichigan Court of Appeals · 1986
- Board of Education v. Connecticut State Employees Retirement CommissionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1989
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