Civil Plaintiff
Jury Awards $1M to California Teen Whose School District Failed to Act Against Bullies
A jury awarded $1 million in damages last week to a teenager after determining a California school district failed to protect her from bullies while in middle school.
Eleri Irons, who is now 18, attended El Segundo Middle School when three classmates bullied her between November 2017 and June 2018, according to a lawsuit filed against the El Segundo Unified School District in April 2019.
The bullying “included verbal harassment, spreading nasty rumors and text messaging mean comments directly” to her, the suit said. The bullying occurred on school grounds and on field trips, according to the lawsuit, which noted the trio started a “Let’s Kill Eleri Irons” petition in June 2018.
