State Vs Tendergrass Case Study
In lecture we discovered that the precedent adopted in the State vs. Pendergrass case was Stare Decisis, which stands for “stand by what has been decided”. Stare Decisis, in further detail, means when determining the outcome of a court decision, judges look at similar cases dealt with in the past to help determine the outcome of the case presented. Another precedent that could be appropriate for this case is the maintenance of hierarchical relationships. Thinking that children need discipline is the only way this could be made precedent in this court decision. “one of the most sacred duties of the parents, is to train up and qualify their children,” which may deem whipping necessary. The sole reason to whip a child is in best interest for him/her
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I think that the law can require non-hierarchical because law can require about anything. With the dispute, I would advise the student to listen because most teachers have reasoning for their actions and words. My advice to the teacher would be to put stay open minded when dealing with students because understanding different viewpoints is beneficial to you and beneficial to the class as a whole.
These cases are similar because force was used in both situations to make another individual obey a superior. In the Pendergrass case it dealt with children and in the Joyner case it dealt with a wife trying to leave her husband for whipping her. They are similar to the Black case because a student could be considered a child and the husband used a similar whip with a switch. The differences are who the defendant was in each case. Those differences are important because that determines if a situation can be determined off precedent. The result for the State v. Black case was both preordained and unavoidable because law “will not invade the domestic forum or go behind the curtain”. First the precedents changed because the court decided to question the wife as a
I think that the law can require non-hierarchical because law can require about anything. With the dispute, I would advise the student to listen because most teachers have reasoning for their actions and words. My advice to the teacher would be to put stay open minded when dealing with students because understanding different viewpoints is beneficial to you and beneficial to the class as a whole.
These cases are similar because force was used in both situations to make another individual obey a superior. In the Pendergrass case it dealt with children and in the Joyner case it dealt with a wife trying to leave her husband for whipping her. They are similar to the Black case because a student could be considered a child and the husband used a similar whip with a switch. The differences are who the defendant was in each case. Those differences are important because that determines if a situation can be determined off precedent. The result for the State v. Black case was both preordained and unavoidable because law “will not invade the domestic forum or go behind the curtain”. First the precedents changed because the court decided to question the wife as a