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An attorney for Rob Lowe asked a judge in Atlanta on Monday to throw out a suit accusing the actor of videotaping a teen-age girl during a sex act. Edgar Neely told U.S. District Judge G. Ernest Tidwell that the girl’s mother, who brought the suit, has no legal standing to sue under a Georgia law that allows parents to seek damages over the seduction of a minor child. The judge did not indicate when he would rule. Lowe, 25, is accused of making the sexually explicit tape of Lena Jan Parsons, then 16, and another woman in his hotel suite during last summer’s Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. The suit was filed May 12 by Lena Arlene Wilson, the girl’s mother, who is seeking unspecified damages. Neely argued Monday that even if the allegations were true, the seduction law is probably unconstitutional, that Wilson is not the girl’s custodial parent as required by law and that Wilson suffered no direct emotional harm. Wilson does not live with her daughter, Neely said. J. Hue Henry, Wilson’s lawyer, argued that Lowe seduced Parsons and that Wilson has suffered direct harm. “One could see how a parent could and would suffer extreme emotional distress” from seeing such a tape, he said. Lowe did not attend the hearing. In court papers, Lowe denied he “committed any wrongful acts giving rise to liability.” Lowe’s attorneys also have filed papers accusing Wilson and Henry of using “extortionist tactics” to force Lowe to pay as much as $500,000 to avoid bad publicity. They also accused Parsons of helping circulate the tape.