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Jul 3, 2026

Max Gruver Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues Phi Delta Theta International and Its Local Chapter Behind the Bible Study Forced-Drinking Ritual That Killed an LSU Freshman at 0.495% Blood-Alcohol, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Greek-Letter Insurers Set Reserves and Invoke Hazing Exclusions, We Preserve the GroupMe Texts, Chapter Safety Audits and Toxicology Results Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine Under Its Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases Serving Hazing-National Fraternity Hazing Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Death That Proved the Policy Was Paper: Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Louisiana If you are reading this page, someone you love may not be coming home from college. Maybe it happened days ago. Maybe you are still waiting for answers from a university that promised safety and delivered a phone call instead. You are sitting at a kitchen table at an hour when no one should be awake, searching for something — anything — that explains how a teenager walking onto a campus in August ends up on a coroner’s table by September. We are writing this page for you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases in Louisiana and across the country, working with local counsel where required. Our lead attorney, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that the truth is not delivered, it is uncovered. Our associate, Lupe Peña, spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decide how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours — and now he sits on your side of the table. We currently litigate an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a major university and fraternity in Harris County, Texas, and we built this page because what happened to one freshman at Louisiana State University in September…

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Jul 3, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Hazing Death in Baton Rouge — 20-Year-Old Southern University Pledge Punched With Boxing Gloves Until He Collapsed and Seized While No One Called 911 — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and Its Local Chapter, We Pursue the Organization That Empowered Its Dean of Pledges and the Warehouse Owner Who Enabled the Hazing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Hospital Surveillance Footage and Suspect Communications Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Death of Caleb Wilson: A 20-Year-Old Southern University Student, a Warehouse, and the Call No One Made If you are reading this page, your family has been destroyed by something that should never have happened. Your son went to college. He joined a fraternity. He was beaten in a ritual, and no one picked up a phone. You are learning that the people who killed him tried to hide what they did before they tried to save him. And right now, while you are still burying your child, the national fraternity’s lawyers are already drawing a line between “a few rogue members” and the organization whose name is on the letters on the sweatshirt your son was so proud to wear. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, and we are currently litigating a hazing wrongful-death and injury case against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston — a case led by our managing partner, Ralph Manginello. We know this fight because we are already in it. Here is what we know about what happened in Baton Rouge, what the law allows your family to do about it, and why the clock on both the evidence and your rights is already running. On February 26, 2025, Caleb Wilson and eight other pledges were taken to a flooring company’s warehouse in Baton Rouge — off-campus, away from Southern University’s security and oversight, in an industrial area…

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Jul 3, 2026

Arizona Fraternity Hazing Death & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Holds the Local Chapter, the National Fraternity Organization and the University Behind the Pledgeship Ritual That Left a Pledge Dead at Northern Arizona University, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How National Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Preserve the Group Chats, Chapter Minutes and Toxicology Reports Before Digital Evidence Is Remotely Wiped, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act with No Cap on Compensatory Damages and the Notice-of-Claim Clock Running Against the University, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Hazing Kills a Pledge at Northern Arizona University — What Your Family Needs to Know Now You are reading this because someone’s son is dead. Two young men have been arrested. The word “hazing” is in the headline, and you are the family — or you are close to the family — and the questions are already piling up faster than anyone can answer them. What actually happened that night? Who let it happen? Who watched it happen and did nothing? Why didn’t anyone call 911 in time? We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death cases in Arizona, and we currently litigate hazing lawsuits — including an active $10 million case against a fraternity and a major university. We know what hazing looks like on the inside, how the national organizations defend themselves, and how the insurance companies circle grieving families in the first hours. We are writing this page to give you what no one else will: the truth about what happens next, what the law actually allows your family to recover, and what evidence is already disappearing while you read this. This is legal information, not legal advice. Every case turns on its own facts. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. But what follows is the closest thing we can give you to a roadmap through the worst days of your life. What Happened at NAU — and What It Means Legally Two…

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Jul 2, 2026

Penn State Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Timothy Piazza Fell Down the Stairs of the Beta Theta Pi House During an Alcohol-Fueled Pledge Ritual in State College, Suffered Traumatic Brain Swelling, a Skull Fracture and a Lacerated Liver While Fraternity Members Waited Nearly 12 Hours to Call 911 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Disbanded Chapter and the Members’ Insurers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternal Risk Carriers Value and Deny Hazing Claims, We Secure the Internal Surveillance Footage, GroupMe Messages and Autopsy Records Before They Vanish, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions plus the Anti-Hazing Law That Bears Timothy Piazza’s Name, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Pledge Does Not Come Home: Hazing, Wrongful Death, and the Law That Followed If you are reading this page, someone you love may not have come home from a fraternity event. Or you are the parent of a student at Penn State, or any university in Pennsylvania, and you are learning what the law actually says about what happened — and what your family can do about it. You are reading at an hour when no one should have to be awake. We know that. We wrote this page for exactly that hour. A young man fell down the stairs of a fraternity house at 220 N. Burrowes Road in State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, during an alcohol-fueled pledge ritual in February 2017. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, a fractured skull, and a lacerated liver. For nearly twelve hours, the people around him — his “brothers,” the members of the chapter that had invited him to pledge — did not call 911. He died two days later. His name was Timothy Piazza, and the law that followed his death changed Pennsylvania. But the law that existed before his death is the law that governs the civil claims his family and families like yours can bring. We are going to tell you exactly how that law works, what it protects, and where the fight lives. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Pennsylvania wrongful death and hazing cases, working…

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Jul 2, 2026

Nova Scotia Youth Hockey Hazing Sexual Assault & Institutional Liability Attorneys — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Hockey Association, Coaching Staff and Governing Body Behind the Culture of Silence, Hockey Canada Safe Sport Failures and Provincial Mandated-Reporting Violations, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Rink Surveillance, Snapchat and Discord Communications and Team Bylaws Before the 30-Day Overwrite — the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Nova Scotia Hockey Hazing Sexual Assault: Your Child’s Legal Rights After a Team “Initiation” Became a Crime You are sitting at your kitchen table at 2 a.m. Your child is in the next room, or maybe they are asleep, or maybe they are not sleeping at all and have not been for days. The RCMP has made arrests. You heard the words “hazing ritual” and “sexual assault” in the same sentence and your stomach dropped through the floor. You are a hockey parent in Nova Scotia. You trusted the team, the association, the coaches, the system. That trust is shattered and you do not know where to turn or what happens next. We are going to tell you — clearly, honestly, and without softening a single thing — what your child’s legal rights are, who can be held accountable, and what you need to do in the next 72 hours before the evidence disappears. The first thing you need to hear is this: what happened to your child was not a team tradition gone too far. It was not “boys being boys.” It was not an initiation that got out of hand. Non-consensual sexual contact during a hazing ritual is sexual assault. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged youth with that crime, and the law — both criminal and civil — treats it as exactly what it is. Your child is a victim of a crime, and the adults and institutions who were supposed to protect your child failed…

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Jul 2, 2026

Eight Arrested in Fraternity Building Burglary Near West Texas A&M: Hazing-National Property Crime Victim Rights & Civil Recovery Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue Civil Recovery Under the Texas Theft Liability Act for Forced-Entry Door Damage and the Stolen Fraternity Flag, We Secure the Surveillance Footage and Booking Statements Before the Digital Overwrite Loop Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Canyon Fraternity Burglary: Your Civil Rights After a Texas Property Crime You arrived at the fraternity building on Hix Drive and found a door that someone had forced open. The lock was damaged. Things were missing — maybe a flag, maybe more. Maybe you are the one who called Randall County deputies at midnight. Maybe you are a parent whose son was one of the eight arrested and you are trying to understand what happens next on both sides of a criminal case. Either way, you are standing at the intersection of a criminal prosecution and a civil claim, and what you do in the next few days will decide whether the evidence survives and whether the people responsible are held accountable in dollars, not just in charges. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take Texas cases involving fraternity and Greek-organization property crime, hazing-related litigation, and premises liability. Ralph Manginello has been licensed in Texas for 27+ years. Lupe Peña spent years inside the insurance-defense industry before joining this firm. We know what the other side does because Lupe sat in the rooms where they decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours. The call is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you. What Happened on Hix Drive On February 12, 2026, the Randall County Sheriff’s Office arrested eight individuals after a reported burglary at a fraternity building…

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Jul 2, 2026

Forced-Entry Burglary at 24700 Hix Drive in Canyon, Randall County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues Civil Recovery Under the Texas Theft Liability Act When Eight Masked Intruders Force a North-Side Door, Compromise the Locking Mechanism and Steal a Fraternity Flag Despite Posted No-Trespassing Signs, the TTLA’s Statutory Fee-Shifting Forces the Perpetrators to Pay the Owner’s Attorney Fees, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Internal Surveillance Video Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Document the Damaged Lock Before Repair Erases the Evidence, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Property Owners and Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Canyon, Randall County, Texas Fraternity Burglary: Your Civil Rights After a Property Crime The police came. They arrested eight people. The criminal case is in motion. But nobody has told you the most important thing: Texas has a civil statute built specifically for property owners in your position, and it does something almost no other Texas law does — it makes the people who broke into your building pay your lawyer, too. You are standing in a building that was already closing. The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at West Texas A&M University was winding down, and eight individuals decided that made the property fair game. They forced a door on the north side, walked through your rooms with their faces covered, and one of them stuffed a fraternity flag down his pants on the way out. The Randall County Sheriff’s Office and WTAMU Campus Police caught them walking out. The owner pointed at the “No Trespassing” signs on the doors that had been ignored. The video cameras inside had already recorded everything. One person admitted to deputies that he intended to take the flag. During booking at the Randall County Jail, the flag was found hidden in his clothing. That is the criminal case. It will run its course in the Randall County criminal courts, and the district attorney will handle it. What we handle is the civil case — the one where you, the property owner or housing corporation, recover what this cost you and send a message that…

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Jul 2, 2026

Indiana University Hazing Injury Attorneys — DKE Cease-and-Desist in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana Amid Campus-Wide Greek Life Suspensions: Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Chartered Chapter and the Officers Behind Coercive Pledging Rituals, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny Hazing Claims, We Move to Preserve GroupMe Chats, Internal Fraternity Communications and House Security Footage Before the 14-Day Overwrite, Indiana Criminal Hazing Law and Clery Act Compliance, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bloomington Indiana Hazing Lawyer — DKE at Indiana University Under Investigation for Hazing You are reading this because you heard the news: Delta Kappa Epsilon at Indiana University has been placed on cease and desist for hazing, effective February 19. Maybe you are a pledge who lived through whatever triggered that order. Maybe you are a parent who just found out what your son or daughter went through to earn those letters. Maybe you are a former member who watched it happen to someone else and has been carrying the silence for months or years. Whatever brought you here at this hour, there are three things you need to hear first, before anything else: What happened to you is not a rite of passage. It is against Indiana law. And “consent” to join a fraternity is not consent to be harmed. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Indiana hazing cases, working with local counsel where required. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston — we know this fight because we are already in it. And we are going to tell you everything we know about what just happened at DKE, what it means, and what you can do about it. What a Cease and Desist Order Actually Means — and What It Doesn’t A cease and desist is not a finding of guilt.…

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Jul 2, 2026

Hazing & Underage-Drinking Injuries at WSU Sigma Chi in Pullman, Washington: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Chapter Officers and House Corporation Under Washington’s Sam’s Law, We Preserve GroupMe Chats and Social Media Footage Before They Auto-Destruct, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice (Avvo-Rated Excellent) and the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing Litigation, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How National Fraternities Value and Deny These Claims, Washington Bars Consent as a Defense to Coercive Pledging, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pullman Fraternity Hazing: WSU Sigma Chi Sanctioned — Your Student’s Rights Under Washington’s Sam’s Law You just read that Sigma Chi lost its recognition at Washington State University for a year. Maybe your son or daughter was a pledge this past fall. Maybe they came home different — quieter, jumpy, ashamed of something they won’t talk about. Maybe you drove them to Pullman Regional Hospital at 3 a.m. for alcohol poisoning and were told it was “just college.” Maybe you are the student, reading this on your phone in a dorm room on College Hill, and you are starting to understand that what they did to you was not a tradition. It was a crime. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial attorneys who take catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, and right now we are actively litigating a hazing lawsuit — the kind of case that puts a fraternity and the institution behind it on trial. We know what hazing does to a person, because we have sat across the table from the families it broke. And we know what Washington law says about it, because the Washington legislature wrote it down in a statute named after a student who died. The university’s one-year suspension of Sigma Chi is an administrative action. It is not justice for what happened to your student. It does not pay a single medical bill. It does not cover a semester of tuition lost to trauma. It does not name the…

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Jul 2, 2026

WSU Sigma Chi Hazing & Underage-Drinking Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Pullman, Washington — Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue Sigma Chi, Its National Fraternity and the Chapter House Corporation Behind Coercive Pledging and Hard Alcohol Served to Minors Without ID Checks, Washington’s Sam’s Law Expanded Hazing to Include Psychological Harm and Made Consent No Defense, We Secure the University Investigative File and Fraternity GroupMe and Discord Logs Before Witnesses Graduate and Leave Town, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Reality of Hazing at Washington State University If you are reading this page, you already know what happened. A student joined a fraternity at Washington State University looking for brotherhood and belonging. What that student got instead was something the university itself called hazing — a system of control where a new member was required to carry an object at all times under a threat the university described as a “fear of repercussions.” At the same time, the fraternity hosted a party where hard alcohol flowed freely to minors with no ID checks and no wristbands — the most basic safeguards any responsible host would use, simply absent. You may be that student. You may be a parent who found out and is now sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m., angry and frightened and unsure what to do. You may be a friend who watched someone change after pledging. Whoever you are, you need to hear three things before anything else. First: what you experienced — the fear, the coercion, the feeling that you had no choice but to comply — is a recognized psychological response to intimidation, not a personal weakness. The university’s own investigation named it. That matters. Second: the sanctions Washington State University imposed on Sigma Chi — loss of recognition for two semesters, disciplinary probation, an alcohol-free house mandate, mandatory training — are a disciplinary action against the fraternity as an organization. They are not compensation for you. They are not personal justice.…

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