Heather Wallace, a Minor, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Phyllis Wallace v. The Batavia School District 101, a Municipal Corporation, and James Cliffe

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a teacher grabbing a student by the arm and attempting to remove her 16 from a classroom to avoid a fight was reasonable
• recognizing that excessive corporal punishment violates the Fourth Amendment
• explaining how the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable seizures fits poorly with public schools
• “We do not believe the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Claus affords Wallace any greater protection than the Fourth Amendment”
• “[I]n the context of a public school, a teacher or administrator who seizes a student does so in violation of the Fourth Amendment only when the restriction of liberty is unreasonable under the circumstances then existing and apparent.”
• finding teacher’s disciplinary actions subject to Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).