HALE v. PRINGLE

Civ. A. No. 82-083-N.

562 F.Supp. 598 (1983)

Shirley HALE, as next of kin of Shawn Deandre Hale, and in her own behalf, Plaintiff, v. LaRue PRINGLE, individually and in his official capacity as Principal of Lowndes County High School; Uralee A. Haynes, individually and in her official capacity as Superintendent of Education for the Lowndes County Board of Education; Lydia Fair, Fletcher Fountain, Mary Dora Hammonds, Andrew McCall, and Willie B. Wilson, Jr., individually and in their official capacities as members of the Lowndes County Board of Education, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

January 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vanzetta Penn Durant, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.

Henry Sanders, Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders & Turner, Selma, Ala., for defendants.


OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiff Shirley Hale, as the mother of Shawn Deandre Hale and in her own behalf, has brought this cause of action, which was tried before the court without a jury, claiming that the defendants violated the first and fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 by inflicting or causing the infliction of corporal punishment on Shawn Deandre Hale, a student in the Lowndes County...

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