Parents of Cross Country Runner Who Sued Jacksonville University for the Wrongful Death of Their Daughter, Settle Out of Court

By Professor Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM, St. John’s University, Senior Writer In November 2021, Julia Pernsteiner, a twenty-three-year-old Division I cross country runner (harrier) at Jacksonville University, committed suicide while alone in her college dorm room. By her own account, she wasn’t the best of students nor the best of athletes, but her low grades and slow running times weren’t the reasons why she took her own life. Her heartbreaking and premature death allegedly happened bec