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The Definitive Guide to Hazing Lawsuits for Parents in Swisher County, Texas If your child has left for college—maybe to Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas A&M in College Station, or the University of Texas in Austin—you sent them with pride and hope. You trusted the university to keep them safe. But for some Swisher County families, that trust is shattered by a late-night phone call, a trip to an emergency room hours away, or the devastating news that their child was brutalized in the name of "tradition" or "brotherhood." Right now, in Houston, we are fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in Texas. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who was severely hazed as a pledge of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity's Beta Nu chapter in fall 2025. According to a $10 million lawsuit filed in Harris County, Bermudez was subjected to months of abuse that included forced humiliation, extreme physical workouts, sleep deprivation, and acts "similar to waterboarding." The hazing culminated in a catastrophic medical emergency: rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure that required a four-day hospitalization and leaves him at risk of permanent organ damage. This is not an isolated incident. It is the…