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Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging police, school district contributed to student's suicide

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Naperville and Naperville School District 203 filed by the family of the Naperville North High School student who died by suicide after being called into the dean's office for disciplinary action.

The judge ruled school and police officials were doing their jobs when they conducted a Jan. 11, 2017, interview with Corey Walgren at Naperville North High School less than two hours before the 16-year-old junior slipped out of the school and jumped from the top of a downtown Naperville municipal parking deck.

The lawsuit accused the school's deans Stephen Madden and

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