PHILADELPHIA, PA, February 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) — Andreozzi + Foote has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (Case No. 1:26-cv-00471-YK) on behalf of Sandra Esther Jusino, administrator of the estate of Yadriel Rivera Jusino. The lawsuit asserts federal civil rights claims, along with wrongful death and survival claims under Pennsylvania law, against the Lebanon School District and multiple school officials, seeking to hold them accountable for their alleged deliberate indifference to repeated and known reports of race-based and disability-based bullying in the years leading up to Yadriel’s death.
Yadriel died by suicide on June 3, 2024. He was 12 years old.
Born in Puerto Rico, Yadriel primarily spoke Spanish. He attended schools in the Lebanon School District from 2020 until his death in 2024. He received special education services under an individualized education program, or IEP, due to dyslexia, which district officials were aware of…