People v. Karen P.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] parent has the ‘right’ to corporally discipline his or her child[ ]” but the right “must be exercised in a ‘reasonable’ manner.’ ”
• mother's use of wooden spoon to spank child not excessive corporal punishment, although it caused bruising on at least one occasion
• making similar analogy in wardship proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).