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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Stadtmueller finds partially in favor of the school district in a lawsuit alleging two Black girls were the targets of pervasive physical and verbal racist harassment at the district’s elementary, middle and high schools which the district did not do enough to investigate or remedy, including being called the “N-word” and bullied with racist stereotypes about Black people. Many of the incidents cited could be found by a reasonable jury to be racist in nature, including several instances of peer-to-peer bullying about the girls’ appearance and school officials’ handling of an incident in which the younger girl brought a toy airsoft gun on the bus and received a one-day suspension. However, because the record shows school officials adequately responded to the younger girl’s cases, the district is granted summary judgment on her Title VI deliberate indifference claims, but that motion is denied as to the older girl’s corresponding claims. The younger girl’s Title VI disparate treatment claim over the airsoft gun incident will proceed, as the record shows her discipline for that may have been harsher and shaped by her race. Fourteenth Amendment claims against an intermediate school principal are unsupported by evidence and dismissed.