Supreme Court Case: Ingraham vs. Wright
The case Ingraham verses Wright was based upon James Ingraham. While in class Ingraham didn’t react fast enough to his teacher and was sent to the principal’s office. He was paddled by Willie J. Wright, his principal. He was assisted by the assistant principal, Lemmie Deliford, and the principal’s assistant, Solomon Barnes. Ingraham was spanked on the bottom more than twenty times, he had to seek medical attention, and suffered a hematoma. A hematoma is a solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues. On January 7, 1971, in the United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida James Ingraham and Roosevelt Andrews filed the complaint of the case. At the time Ingraham was an eighth
