MG v. Caldwell-West Caldwell Board of Education

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• noting that excessive force claims by public school officials are generally analyzed as substantive due process claims rather than Fourth Amendment claims
• applying substantive due process standard to special education student's excessive force claim brought under Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
• finding a teacher briefly bear hugging a disruptive special needs student should be analyzed under Gottlieb
• analyzing a claim where a teacher briefly restrained a special needs student by bear hugging him under the Gottlieb standard rather than under the Fourth Amendment reasonableness standard
• finding a teacher bear hugging a special needs student did not shock the conscious
• granting summary judgment in favor of a school district where the plaintiff presented evidence that a teacher restrained an unruly special needs student by temporarily putting him a bear hug because there was a “pedagogical reason” for the use of force

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