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GONYAW v. GRAY

Civ. A. Nos. 6223, 6564.

361 F.Supp. 366 (1973)

Lee GONYAW, by his mother and next friend, Myrtle Gonyaw v. John GRAY. Chris LADUE, by his father and next friend, Lawrence Ladue v. Lawrence MOFFATT, Individually and as a teacher at Barton Academy.

United States District Court, D. Vermont.

June 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Kohn, Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., St. Johnsbury, Vt., for Gonyaw.

Richard S. Kohn, Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., St. Johnsburg, Vt., for Ladue.

Parker & Sargent, Morrisville, Vt., for John Gray.

Georgiana O. Miranda, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, Vt., Downs, Rachlin & Martin, St. Johnsbury, Vt., for Moffatt.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HOLDEN, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs in these cases are 12 year old students who, it is alleged, were subjected to corporal punishment while attending public school. Lee Gonyaw alleges in his complaint that he was punished by the defendant Gray, the principal of the Hardwick Elementary School, by the application of several strokes of a belt to his buttocks, after he admitted sending a "dirty note" to a classmate. Chris Ladue says in his...

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