Federal Judge Dismisses Mohats' Law Suit Against Mentor Schools
Mohat family has the option to refile two of their complaints at the state level
U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent has dismissed the lawsuit Eric Mohat's family filed against Mentor Schools. Eric was a a 17-year-old Mentor High School student who killed himself March 27, 2007. Eric's parents, Janis and William Mohat, filed a lawsuit against Mentor Schools after his death, saying their son killed himself because he was bullied and the school did not do enough to stop it. Nugent ruled to dismiss the suit June 1. In the parents' suit, they accused the school district of five specific counts of wrongdoing. They claimed that Mentor Schools: In the suit, the Mohats asked the judge to grant them "compensatory damages, and against the individual defendants an appropriate amount of punitive damages." Nugent addressed …
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Jason Lea
11:25 am on Thursday, April 26, 2012
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