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A victim of former teacher Brianne Altice has filed a second lawsuit against her and the Davis School District, this time in federal court.

The boy, one of three teens who had sexual contact with Altice in 2013, was joined by his parents as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday — about six months after the same family dropped a lawsuit against the school district and Altice in Utah's 2nd District Court.

The family's attorney in June did not disclose the reason the family withdrew the lawsuit, but they moved to dismiss the case shortly after the Utah attorney general's office filed arguments that Utah's governmental immunity laws protected the district from being sued by Altice's victims.

At the time, the family's lawyer declined to comment "as it remains undetermined on whether the [Utah Governmental Immunity Act] grants immunity in this case. Once the matter is adjudicated, we will gladly comment."

The matter was adjudicated about two weeks ago, when 2nd District Judge John Morris threw out the case of another of Altice's victims. Morris agreed with state lawyers who argued school districts are protected from liability when students are assaulted, and the damage suffered by Altice's victims stem from behavior that amounted to "assault and battery."

Altice, now 36, pleaded guilty to forcible sexual abuse and was sentenced in July to at least two years and up to 30 years in prison.

The victim was 16 at the time the abuse occurred, and his name appears in court documents. However, The Salt Lake Tribune does not typically identify victims of sexual abuse.

Court documents say Altice, an English teacher at Davis High School at the time, touched the genitals of three individuals from January to September 2013. Each of the three teen boys testified at separate preliminary hearings that they had sex with the teacher.

The complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the state of Utah reiterates allegations that employees at the school told officials about Altice's inappropriate behavior toward her male students. It states that the lawsuit is intended to redress "a hostile educational environment pursuant to Title IX, ... the deprivation of plaintiffs' constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment ... [and] negligence and resulting harm under Utah state common law."

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