The Murray County school district has dropped its efforts to collect nearly $30,000 in court costs from a student's parents after they lost a lawsuit claiming their son had killed himself because school administrators had failed to protect him from school bullies.
The district's insurance provider, Utica Mutual Insurance Co., agreed to forego any further effort to collect the district's costs for successfully defending itself in federal court in Rome and in the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against allegations by Tina and David Long that school administrators' failures were at the heart of their 17-year-old son's 2009 suicide.
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