NORTHAMPTON, Mass. A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday.

The settlement with the town of South Hadley and its school department was reached more than a year ago, but the details were kept under wraps until a journalist won a court order for the release of the information.

The documents show that Prince’s parents settled claims against the town and its school department for $225,000. In return, the parents promised to release the plaintiffs from any further claims.

The documents were released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which represented Slate reporter Emily Bazelon in her bid to for the disclosure of the settlement.

“This is a victory for the public’s right to know and for transparency in government,” said Bill Newman, an attorney with the ACLU’s legal office in western Massachusetts.

Prince hanged herself in January 2010 after classmates taunted her after she dated a popular boy. She had recently moved from Ireland to South Hadley, a rural town about 100 miles west of Boston.

Five students later accepted plea deals in criminal cases connected with bullying that preceded her death. None involved prison time.

Prince’s death drew international attention and was among several high-profile teen suicides that prompted new laws aimed at cracking down on bullying in schools. All school districts in Massachusetts are now required to develop bullying prevention plans.

After unsuccessful attempts to gain access to details of the settlement,wholesale Ed hardy jeans, which was reached with the town and its insurer in November 2010, Bazelon sought a court order to release the information under the state’s public records law.

In an order dated Dec. 23, Superior Court Judge Mary Lou-Rup ruled in favor of Bazelon, saying the town had not shown what harm would be caused by disclosure of the settlement. The judge noted that the Prince family had not registered an objection to releasing the details.

Edward Ryan, lawyer for the town, did not immediately return an after-hours call Tuesday seeking comment.

Ryan had argued in court that the settlement was not a public document and that all parties involved had agreed to keep it confidential.

Photos: Cass Bird

—Maya Singer

No one knows who contrived the game Truth or Dare. But Sophomore designer Chrissie Miller has a pretty nice methodology as apt why it’s proven so renowned. “Based aboard my own experience, it’s equitable the obvious entity because boys and girls to do when they obtain together for the first time,” she says. “You’re kids, you’re seeing approximately the room at each other, and you accomplish, we have absolutely nought to talk about.” Miller has had Truth alternatively Dare aboard the head lately; together with prevalent collaborator Cass Bird, she’s established a short documentary featuring the likes of Chloë Sevigny, Lesley Arfin, Jen Brill, Scott Campbell, and PJ Ransone playing the game.

Of lesson, in increase to entire of the pre-teen boys and girls worldwide, Truth or Dare has one quite outstanding practitioner: Madonna, who labeled her 1991 doc after the game. It’s namely flick, in fact, that inspired Miller to lens her own. “I watched it not that long antecedent, and I just loved it, and I thought, we’ve got to do that,” Miller explains. “It’s not a typical ‘fashion’ film—it’s for Sophomore, yeah, yet the clothing isn’t my cardinal concern. I rather to converge on making someone amusing, that people ambition want to watch. So I rounded up some friends, we got a room at the Bowery Hotel, and came up with a catalogue of answers.” Those answers led to hours of footage, entire of which was boiled down to the six-minute film. All that amending method there was plenty left on the tearing room floor—including a few tantalizing bits. “There was one point where Chloë challenged Lesley Arfin to kiss her,” Miller recollected. “It was really adorable—I average, they’ve been friends forever, and they were both compliant to work there with the game.” The film debuts morrow on www.kanonvodka.com, and tonight, Miller namely hosting a screening in Los Angeles at Paul and Andre, the unmarked bar recently opened along Paul Sevigny and André Saraiva.