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The Ultimate Guide to Hazing Lawsuits in Texas: A Resource for Tyler County Families If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Are Not Alone Imagine receiving a call in the middle of the night. Your child, a student at a Texas university, is in the emergency room. The story comes out in fragments: forced drinking, humiliating rituals, extreme physical exertion, and a culture of silence that delayed medical care. As a parent in Tyler County—whether your child attends nearby Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Lamar University in Beaumont, or has ventured to the University of Houston, Texas A&M, or UT Austin—this nightmare scenario is unfolding for Texas families right now. In late 2025, our firm filed a $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who pledged the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter. The allegations are severe: a "pledge fanny pack" containing humiliating items, forced consumption of milk and hot dogs until vomiting, being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," and extreme workouts that led to rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. He was hospitalized for four days, passing brown urine, and faces…