YOUNGSTOWN - A fourth lawsuit has been filed against Ursuline High School, this time accusing the school of failing to prevent an assault on a student in the school cafeteria.

The allegations in the latest suit stem from an incident in April of 2024 involving a 14-year-old freshman female student.

According to the suit, one of the victim's friends told her that one of her ex-friends was telling students that she planned to fight her during lunch the following day.

Later that night, the ex-friend texted the victim directly, telling her that she was going to fight her the next day and the victim told her mother, according to the suit.

From there, the suit states that the mother contacted the school's guidance counselor Louise Kotel to alert her of the fight. The suit states that Ko

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