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SAYLOR v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HARLAN COUNTY, KY.

No. 95-5319.

118 F.3d 507 (1997)

Randy SAYLOR, Sr., suing individually, and Debbie Saylor, suing individually and as next friend of Randy Saylor, Jr., an infant, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, Defendant, Sam B. Saylor, Jim Roark, and William A. Lee, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Durenda L. Lawson (argued), Millward & Jewell, Barbourville, KY, William D. Stark, Jr. (briefed), Barbourville, Kentucky, for Appellee.

Winter R. Huff (argued and briefed), Law Offices of John G. Prather, Somerset, KY, for Appellant.

Before: CONTIE, NELSON, and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

A fourteen-year-old schoolboy, Randy Saylor, Jr., got into a wild fight with a classmate in a public school in Harlan County, Kentucky. Their teacher, Sam Saylor, punished each of them by administering five licks with a paddle. The paddling left the boys with bruised buttocks.

Young Saylor and his parents brought a federal civil rights action alleging, among other things, a violation of substantive due process...

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