Peterson v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that derogatory comments were inadequate to establish an issue of fact
• concluding that choking a student until he lost his breath and sus- tained bruises and a scratch on his neck “was not obviously exces- sive” because “the extent of the student’s bodily injury was not se- rious.”
• concluding there was a relationship between the force used and the need for punishment where a teacher choked a “defiant” student
• “Section 1983 must not be used as a font of tort law to convert state tort claims into federal causes of action.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “Section 1983 must not be used as a font of tort law to convert state tort claims into federal causes of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).