YOUNGSTOWN A flurry of legal filings in one of the federal civil rights hazing lawsuits includes a settlement with one student’s family and a request for an immediate victory against nearly two dozen others who have failed to respond to the suit.

Attorneys representing the plaintiffs, identified in court documents as Jane Doe and her two children, filed a motion for default judgment Thursday against 17 individual defendants. The group includes former football players and their parents who have not hired attorneys or filed an answer to the lawsuit, despite being served with the complaint in mid-November.

The motion asks U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson to find these defendants liable for damages based on their failure to defend themselves against allegations of hazing, sexual assault

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