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The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a Georgia teenager who was found dead inside a rolled up gym mat at school has been dismissed by a federal judge.

U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands filed an order Tuesday saying the parents of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson did not file for extensions and submit paperwork in time.

Classmates found Johnson's body on January 11, 2013, with his body upside down in one of the rolled-up gym mats propped upright against a wall next to the gymnasium bleachers at Lowndes High School in Valdosta.

Sheriff's investigators concluded Johnson died in a freak accident while reaching for a shoe inside the mat, but his parents say their son was murdered.

Kendrick Johnson was found dead on January 11, 2013 in what authorities said was a freak accident after he reached for a shoe inside a rolled up gym-mat and got stuck

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Johnson got stuck inside the mat (above) in the Lowndes High School gym and died from 'positional asphyxia', the state medical examiners concluded 

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But Johnson's parents Jacquelyn and Kenneth Johnson (center and right) maintained their son was murdered. A wrongful death lawsuit they filed was dismissed on Tuesday

Johnson's parents, Jacquelyn and Kenneth Johnson, filed a $100million lawsuit listing 39 defendants, but the judge filed an order Tuesday saying they were negligent filing their paperwork.

Sands also said the plaintiffs' attorney was ignorant of a significant legal change tightening deadlines for certain paperwork.  

The 5-foot-10, 160-pound multi-talented athlete, attended classes on the morning of January 10, 2013.

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