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Government,
Civil Litigation

Aug. 30, 2022

School officials ignored girl’s death threats, now they owe her $1M

“The bullying traumatized Eleri Olive Irons so much that she suffered PTSD, cut herself and sought refuge in the school nurse’s office nearly every lunch break,” said Eleri Olive Irons’ attorney, Christa Ramey.

Los Angeles County jurors ordered El Segundo Unified School District to pay $1 million for failing to intervene when middle schoolers fiercely bullied a teenage girl and circulated a petition urging that she end her life.

“The bullying traumatized Eleri Olive Irons so much that she suffered PTSD, cut herself and sought refuge in the school nurse’s office nearly every lunch break,” Irons’ attorney, Christa Ramey, co-founding partner at Rame...

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