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A federal judge in Atlanta Thursday dismissed part of a lawsuit that accuses Rob Lowe of enticing a teen-age girl into sexual encounters on videotape. The girl’s mother, Lena Arlene Wilson, sued the actor under a Georgia law involving the seduction of a minor daughter, and she also alleged that Lowe intentionally inflicted emotional distress on her family. U.S. District Judge G. Ernest Tidwell, who heard arguments last week on Lowe’s request that the lawsuit be thrown out, agreed to dismiss the claim of emotional distress, saying the suit did not offer enough facts to warrant the allegation. But the judge refused to dismiss the claim for damages for seduction. Lowe, 25, is alleged to have coaxed Lena Jan Parsons, then 16, into a filmed tryst involving another woman last summer while he was in Atlanta for the Democratic National Convention.