Ohio school asks judge to dismiss bullying lawsuit

[WillParkinson]

Source: The Associated Press

Ohio school asks judge to dismiss bullying lawsuit
By The Associated Press
11.11.2010 10:00am EST

(Cleveland) An Ohio school district being sued by two families who claim their children’s deaths were caused by bullying has asked a federal judge to dismiss one of the lawsuits.

The Mentor Public School District said in a court filing last week that 16-year-old Sladjana Vidovic was not a student at Mentor High School when she committed suicide in October 2008. Vidovic’s parents sued the school district, superintendent and principal in August, claiming their daughter was severely bullied.

The school district also claims that Sladjana’s parents, Dragan and Celija Vidovic, lack capacity to bring claims on her behalf because her estate was closed before they filed the lawsuit. Records in Lake County Probate Court show that Sladjana Vidovic’s estate was reopened Wednesday retroactively to Aug. 4, the date it was closed.

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Words just escape me.

[blue sky at night]

1. I know about mentor...

the place has no gravity...it sucks, a real HOTBED of rightwing fucks!

[Kolesar]

5. Their school budget was royally screwed six years ago

Just can't find good board members in Mentor. That's sad because they have an attractive city and a nice beach.

[sarcasmo]

2. Is this the School bullying the family? just a sad situation.

[jberryhill]

8. It is a defendant filing a motion to dismiss

Which is pretty normal for a civil suit.

[truth2power]

3. If you think of it in terms of the school district's lawyer having to

find some sort of defense and having to come up with this absurdity, then it looks like the parents have a good case.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. She wasn't a student there?

Huh? Then why sue this school district?

[Moosepoop]

6. She was a student there up until about a week before her death.

She left a suicide note detailing the bullying at the school. Her parents say that they had begged the school to intervene many times, to no avail.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20019077-504083.html

[Evasporque]

7. Tea Party drafts resolution declaring Bullying a "Right of Passage" non-crime....nt

[lunatica]

9. I'm very glad the lawsuit was brought on the school

No matter what the school claims. Something has to cause precedence.

[bemildred]

10. All students have a right to be secure while being educated.

You can't be expected to do academic work if you are not safe. Schools is not prison. The students are not inmates.