Durante Neal, a Minor by His Next Friends Eugene Neal, Plaintiffs v. Fulton County Board of Education, Stephen Dolinger, Superintendent

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• holding that a student athlete had made out “a violation of his right under the Fourteenth Amendment to be free from excessive corporal punishment,” after being hit with a blunt object by his coach
• holding that a student athlete had made out “a violation of his right under the Fourteenth Amendment to be free from excessive corporal punishment,” after being hit with a blunt object by his coach
• holding that a student stated an excessive corporal punishment claim where a coach hit him in the head with a “weight lock,” knocking his eye “completely out of its socket” and leaving it “destroyed and dis- membered.”
• holding that a plaintiff stated a claim for conscience-shocking behavior where he alleged that a coach struck a student in the face with a weight lock, knock- ing his eyeball out of its socket and causing permanent blindness
• noting that “[n]ot all corporal punishment cases arise under [traditional] circumstances ... and may involve less traditional, more informally-administered, and more severe punishments”
• noting that courts treat “the extent and nature of the injury as simply one factor (although an important one) to be considered in the totality of the circumstances”

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