Resendez v. Johnson

We granted the petitions for review in this interlocutory appeal to consider whether excessive corporal punishment may violate a student’s substantive due process rights. But this Court’s jurisdiction over interlocutory appeals is limited. Without a dissent or a conflict, the court of appeals’ decision is final. 1 Here, there is no dissent, and we conclude that the parties’ jurisdictional arguments rely on conflicts that do not exist. Accordingly, we withdraw our order granting the petitions as improvidently granted, and dismiss the petitions for want of jurisdiction.

Ernesto and Maria…