Patton Ex Rel. Patton v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, in a § 1983 case brought by a student against a teacher who pulled a chair out from under the student, causing the student to be injured, that claims based on the Fourth Amendment must be dismissed
• “Courts have recognized with near unanimity that physical beatings and other violence may result in deprivation of due process of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).