First filed April 16, 2024, the lawsuit alleged that first-year teacher Julious Johnican created a "fight club" at George Washington Carver Montessori IPS School 87 on the city's north side.

The lawsuit alleges Johnican abused the boy for "his own amusement" and as a "disciplinary measure," adding that the teacher created a “reprehensible ‘fight club’ type" environment in the class.

The lawsuit, first filed last April, alleged that first-year teacher Julious Johnican facilitated a “fight club” style of discipline in which he encouraged and recorded physical abuse that the ...