Saying that there is “a particularly strong public interest” in a suit that blames a north Georgia school district for the suicide of one of its students, a federal judge in Rome has refused to seal the dead teen’s psychiatric records and defense pleadings that reveal personal details about his life.
U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy of the Northern District of Georgia on Monday handed down a 25-page order that largely rejected a request by Tina and David Long, the parents of 17-year-old Tyler Long, to seal hundreds of pages of the public court record that contradicted their claim that Murray County High School teachers and the principal should have done more to stop the bullying that they say caused their son to take his life.
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