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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Osteen partially denies a county school board’s motion to dismiss a host of alleged ADA, Rehabilitation Act and state law violations brought by two students, who are sisters, and their mother. The family claims the sisters were often targeted and bullied because one of them was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. The bullying often included physical attacks from other students, including the principal’s daughter, such as hitting them in the head with balls in gym class and at one point knocking one of them to the floor, causing concussion and neck injuries requiring medical treatment. Despite their mother’s attempt to intervene multiple times, the behavior continued. Although the state and individual claims against the principal and several teachers are dismissed under sovereign immunity, the school’s apparent “deliberate indifference” to how the two students were treated by others constitutes federal law violations.