A lawsuit claiming two Canyon Country men and the city are liable for a Santa Clarita teen’s wrongful death in an alleged 2012 street race is due back in court in December, officials said.

Dakota Demott was killed the night of Jan. 10, 2012, when Demott and Colt Doherty were traveling in a Ford Mustang at a high rate of speed on Sand Canyon Road, according to court documents. Doherty allegedly was racing with Thomas Vensko at the time.

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 “There’s an upcoming status conference in the civil matter on Dec. 17,” said Brian Hamblet, attorney for Burke, Williams & Sorenson, which is the law firm representing the city of Santa Clarita in the matter. “The case is currently stayed pending the results of the criminal trial,” Hamblet said, adding the hold could be lifted in December.

The December date was arranged in April, while the case was in the pretrial stages.

Since then, both men have pleaded no contest to one count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, according to District Attorney’s Office Spokesman Greg Risling.

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A no contest plea is the same as a guilty plea in the eyes of the court, however, it does not indicate an admission of liability in civil court.

Doherty reached speeds of 100 mph before he crashed into a tree near Sand Canyon Road that January night, according to a criminal indictment.

When Doherty entered a curve, he lost control of the car and collided with a large oak tree, the impact of which ejected Demott from the vehicle and threw him into a fence, according to officials.

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Doherty, who was driving the car Demott was in, received six years in state prison, and Vensko, the man he was accused of racing, received a suspended sentence of four years, and five years of formal probation. He was ordered to serve 180 days in a Los Angeles County jail.