Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U.S. 651 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the disciplinary corporal punishment policy of Florida's public schools by a 5-4 vote.

On October 6, 1970, Ingraham was accused of failing to promptly leave the stage of the school auditorium when asked to do so by a teacher.

[6] He and his parents sued the school, calling it "cruel and unusual punishment" and loss of liberty, but lost the initial trial.

The Supreme Court declined to consider the plaintiffs' substantive due process claims in Ingraham v. Wright.

Lower courts have adopted a variety of approaches to the substantive due process issue, none of which offer much protection for students who are subjected to corporal punishment at school.