Attorneys for Limestone County Public Schools and six current and former employees have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Madison woman after her son’s suspension in May.

Attorneys with the Huntsville firm Bishop Colvin LLC, representing the defendants, argued in a motion filed Aug. 12 that district employees complied with state and federal law and precedent in suspending the student for the final eight school days of last year and assigning him to alternative school for 90 days beginning this year.

Birmingham attorney Roderick Van Daniel sued the district and employees July 10 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of Alicia Grissom, parent of a minor suspended after an incident – which the suit described as “horseplay” — at East Limestone High School. According to that complaint, Grissom’s son and four other students were left in the school’s weight room unsupervised by Coach Zachery Woodfin on May 13 and began “playing like they were fighting each other,” actions observed by a custodian and reported to Principal Matt Scott.