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The Complete Guide to Hazing Lawsuits & Accountability in Texas: A Resource for Falls City Families Introduction: The Phone Call No Texas Parent Wants to Receive It's late on a Wednesday night, and your phone rings. Your son, a freshman at a Texas university, is calling from a hospital emergency room. His speech is slurred, he's confused, and through the background noise, you hear medical staff discussing "acute kidney injury" and "possible rhabdo." When you finally piece together what happened, you learn he was at a fraternity "workout" where pledges were forced to do hundreds of squats and push-ups, then made to consume excessive amounts of milk and food until vomiting. This wasn't just roughhousing—this was a calculated, weeks-long campaign of humiliation and physical abuse that nearly killed him. Right now, in Texas, this exact scenario is playing out in real time. Our firm represents Leonel Bermudez in a $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter, its national headquarters, and 13 fraternity leaders. According to media reports including Click2Houston and ABC13, Bermudez suffered rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure after enduring forced consumption rituals, extreme physical workouts, simulated waterboarding, and…