Ingraham Vs Georgia Case Brief

In the 1970's two court cases were being held in the supreme court about cruel and unusual punishment. Ingraham Vs. Wright (1977) and Gregg Vs. Georgia (1976). I choose to compare these because they both favored common good instead of individual rights and had a lot of similar aspects of their trials. During these Supreme Court cases Gregg Vs. Georgia showed more balance between the promoting the common good and protecting the individual rights than Ingraham Vs. Wright showed in 1977.
In the court case of Ingraham vs. Wright, James Ingraham an 8th grade student sued his school for cruel and unusual punishment when he got severely beaten for failing to promptly leave the stage of his school auditorium when told by his teacher. He was sent to the schools principle Willie J. Wright and Ingraham told him he was not guilty of the accusation's against him. Wright Obviously didn’t care and followed to bend James over to hit him with the a paddle but struggled. Wright called in the assistant principle and his personal assistant to help hold his arms and legs down and continued to beat James Ingraham. In the text it said "The paddling was so server that he suffered a hematoma requiring medical attention and keeping him out of school for several days." After the 20+ licks Wright gave to Ingraham he made a complaint in 1971 along with the help of another student named Roosevelt Andrews who had also been beaten badly by Wright. They claimed that the school violated the Eight Amendment that
Georgia balanced the promoting of the common good and the protecting of the individual rights. Ingraham Vs. Wright and Gregg Vs. Georgia matter because they were obviously important for us to learn about. They both showed that cruel and unusual punishment matter and that common good was favored in their cases. So to conclude James Ingraham's case was not as balanced as Troy Gregg's case in the