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I don't believe this is true. 42 USC 1983 allows government actors to be sued for civil rights violations. Much of the precedence for capital punishment is befo

I don't believe this is true. 42 USC 1983 allows government actors to be sued for civil rights violations. Much of the precedence for capital punishment is before this, and is unlikely to be upheld. While on the books it may look legal, if parents were to bring a lawsuit they would likely win.

boomboomsubban 4y ago
The Supreme Court has ruled on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingraham_v._Wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingraham_v._Wright I think your mentioned law was passed after that, so maybe they'd win.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > I think your mentioned law was passed after that, It was not. 42 U.S.C. 1983, the section cited, is where Section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 is codified. This was passed more than a century before Ingraham v. Wright (1977).
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dragonwriter 4y ago
> 42 USC 1983 allows government actors to be sued for civil rights violations. Corporal punishment (within the bounds articulated by Ingraham v. White) in public schools is not a civil rights violation under US federal law, so the fact that government actors can be sued for civil rights violations is immaterial. > While on the books it may look legal, if parents were to bring a lawsuit they would likely win. No, they would lose. As they did, with appeals the whole way to the Supreme Court, in Ingraham v. Wright.