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Jul 2, 2026

NMSU Hazing & Sexual Assault Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Universities Accountable for Athletic Program Abuse, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue Institutional Liability for Title IX Violations and Negligent Supervision in Las Cruces, New Mexico, $8 Million Settlement Reached for Deuce Benjamin and Shakiru Odunewu, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Cases, We Move to Preserve Internal Investigation Records and Title IX Reports, Millions Recovered for Catastrophic Injuries — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Locker Room Becomes a Crime Scene: The $8 Million NMSU Settlement If you are a student-athlete or the parent of one in Las Cruces, New Mexico, you know that the jersey represents more than just a game. It represents a future, a scholarship, and a sacred trust between a family and a university. When that trust is shattered by systemic abuse—especially the kind of egregious sexual assault and physical hazing recently uncovered within the New Mexico State University (NMSU) men’s basketball program—the damage reaches far beyond the court. We are looking at an $8 million settlement paid by NMSU to victims and their families. This is one of the most significant resolutions in the history of college sports law, and it sends a clear message: an institution cannot look the other way while its players are being terrorized. Whether you are dealing with a similar situation at a university, a high school, or a private club, you need to understand the legal machinery that forced this result. At The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC (Attorney911), we work with families to move through the wreckage of institutional betrayal. We don’t get paid unless we win your case, and we offer a free consultation 24/7 to help you understand your rights before the clock runs out. Why NMSU Paid $8 Million: The Price of Institutional Betrayal In Las Cruces, the university is the heart of the community. But when an internal investigation substantiates that players were subjected to repeated sexual assaults…

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Jul 2, 2026

Rutgers University Hazing Lawsuit & Armand Runte Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Litigates Theta Chi & Institutional Defendants for Forced Intoxication and Skull Fractures, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Trial Practice & Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) & Catastrophic Injury Representation, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Investigate the Three-Hour Medical Aid Delay and Secure GroupMe Logs in New Brunswick, New Jersey Before Evidence Is Concealed, Pursuing Justice Under the State’s Anti-Hazing Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Brunswick, New Jersey Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit: Rutgers Theta Chi Injury Analysis If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital or a quiet home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, wondering how a “brotherhood” could let your son fall down a flight of stairs and then wait three hours to call for help, we understand the anger and the exhaustion you are feeling. You sent your child to Rutgers University for an education and a future, not to have them subjected to life-threatening amounts of alcohol and left to suffer with multiple skull fractures while the people responsible tried to hide the evidence. At Attorney911, we are Legal Emergency Lawyers™. We do not just handle cases; we move into the middle of crises to stop the bleeding—legally and financially. Our trial team, led by Ralph Manginello, a competitor with over 27 years of experience who hates losing, and Lupe Peña, a former insurance-defense insider who knows exactly how the other side plans to devalue your child’s life, is here to provide the protection your family deserves. We take New Jersey catastrophic injury cases because we know that when an institution like a national fraternity or a major university fails in its duty to protect students, the only way to get justice is to out-work and out-fight the massive insurance machines standing behind them. The 180-Minute Delay: Why “The Golden Hour” Decides a Brain Injury Case In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the flagship campus…

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Jul 2, 2026

Sawyer Updike Sigma Chi Hazing & Wrongful Death Litigation in Austin, Travis County, TX — Attorney911 Pursues National Greek Organizations for Forced Drug Consumption and Ritualized Physical Torture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Our Lead Counsel Role in Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuits, We Litigate the Texas Survival Action for Pre-Death Conscious Pain and Suffering, Preserving Text Logs and Internal Photos Before Evidence Is Destroyed, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows the Claims Machine, Millions Recovered for Bereaved Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Holding National Fraternities Accountable for Austin Hazing Deaths When a family sends their son to the University of Texas at Austin, they expect the “Longhorn family” to be a place of growth, not a gauntlet of ritualized violence. What happened inside the Sigma Chi house on Nueces Street is a betrayal of everything a university community stands for. As trial attorneys who handle these tragedies, we know that a suicide following months of abuse is not an isolated choice—it is the final, tragic result of a psychological crisis manufactured by a culture of cruelty. If your family is living through a nightmare like this in Travis County, you are likely being told by university officials or fraternity representatives that these were the acts of a “few bad apples.” We know the truth. These rituals are often part of an organized system of “tests” overseen by older members who act as “enforcers.” When a chapter is already on university probation and continues to use staples, cigarette burns, and fishhooks on teenagers, the national organization is no longer just negligent. They are acting with conscious indifference to human life. The Physical Proof of Conscious Pain and Suffering In many wrongful death lawyer cases, the defense tries to minimize the payout by arguing the death was instantaneous. In a hazing case involving physical torture, we deploy the “Survival Action.” This allows us to seek damages for the conscious physical pain and mental anguish a student suffered in the weeks and months leading up…

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Jul 2, 2026

ASU Sigma Alpha Epsilon Hazing Lawsuit & Institutional Liability Attorneys — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity for Waterboarding, Paddling, and Alcohol Poisoning in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Carriers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Secure the GroupMe and Snapchat Logs Before the Evidence Is Deleted, Arizona Anti-Hazing Doctrine Holds Organizations Accountable for Serious Physical and Psychological Trauma, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Seeking Justice After Extreme Hazing at Arizona State University in Tempe You sent your child to Arizona State University for an education and a future, not to be subjected to ritualistic torture in the heart of Tempe. The allegations emerging from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter at the Greek Leadership Village (GLV) are not just “fraternity pranks” or “rites of passage.” They describe a calculated system of physical and psychological abuse, including waterboarding, forced near-lethal alcohol consumption, and financial extortion. If you or your son was a pledge during the Spring 2024 semester and suffered physical injury, psychological trauma, or was forced to withdraw from the university due to this environment, the law in Maricopa County provides a path to hold every responsible party accountable. At Attorney911, we know that these organizations rely on a code of silence. We work to break that silence. Our team, led by Ralph Manginello, who is currently lead counsel in a $10 million hazing lawsuit, and Lupe Peña, a former insurance-defense insider, knows exactly how these organizations and their insurers try to hide the truth. The Law in Arizona: Understanding “Jack’s Law” and Your Rights Arizona has some of the strongest anti-hazing protections in the country, largely due to past tragedies that occurred right here in Tempe. Under Arizona’s “Jack’s Law,” hazing is not just a violation of university policy; it is a violation of state law. “A person is guilty of hazing if both of the following apply: 1. The person is…

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Jul 2, 2026

University of Texas Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello Bring 27+ Years of Trial Experience to Austin, Texas — Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit — We Hold National Greek Organizations and Local Chapters Accountable for Psychological Abuse and Systemic Rituals — Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Carriers Value and Deny These Claims — Moving to Preserve GroupMe Logs and Disciplinary Records Before They Are Purged — Millions Recovered for Families Under the Texas Wrongful Death Act — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Seeking Justice After a Tragedy at UT Austin: The Legal Fight for Accountability When a freshman student at the University of Texas at Austin loses his life after a psychological crisis triggered by fraternity hazing, the trauma ripples through the entire West Campus community. For the parents left behind, the search for answers often leads to a courtroom. We understand that no amount of money can replace a son, but the civil legal system is the only tool available to force a powerful national organization to change its ways and acknowledge the truth of what happened behind closed doors. Austin, Texas is home to one of the most intense Greek life scenes in the country. While the university maintains official anti-hazing policies, the reality in off-campus fraternity houses is often a world of its own—a “controlled environment” where young men are subjected to rituals designed to break their will and strip their identity. When these rituals cross the line into severe psychological abuse, the consequences can be fatal. In Texas, we have specific laws designed to address this, and our firm is here to ensure those laws are enforced. If your family is living through this nightmare, you need to know that the law sees this not as a personal weakness of the student, but as a systemic failure of the institutions that were supposed to protect him. Ralph Manginello, who has spent 27+ years licensed and in courtrooms, is himself a UT Austin alumnus who understands the high-stakes social…

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Jul 2, 2026

Mead High School Football Hazing & Racial Discrimination Litigation — Attorney911 Holds Mead School District & Eastern Washington University Accountable Following Liability Findings in Cheney, Spokane County, WA, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Trial Experience and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Case, We Litigate Massage Gun Assaults and the Internal Suppression of Racial Harassment Findings, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Counters the Claims Machine, Millions Recovered for Injury Victims, Protecting Student Rights under the Washington Law Against Discrimination — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the School District Becomes the Adversary: The Mead High School Hazing Betrayal If you are a parent in Cheney, Spokane County, WA, or anywhere in the Inland Northwest, you send your child to school under a sacred, unspoken contract: you provide the trust, and they provide the safety. When that contract is torn up by systemic violence, and then the shards are hidden away by the very administrators paid to protect your family, the trauma isn’t just physical. It is what we call institutional betrayal. In Cheney, at Eastern Washington University, student-athletes were allegedly subjected to assaults with a massage gun while peers recorded the incidents on cell phones. But the case currently moving through the Spokane County Superior Court has revealed a second, deeper injury. A judge has found the Mead School District liable for racial discrimination because the district’s top official allegedly deleted findings of “race and racial targeting” from the final investigative report. We know how this environment feels from the inside. When the system that should be a shield becomes a shroud for the truth, you need a trial team that understands how to pull that shroud back. At Attorney911, we look at cases like the Mead hazing litigation not just as child injury lawsuits, but as fundamental battles for civil rights and institutional accountability. The Finding of Liability: What a Spokane County Judge Just Ruled In many personal injury cases, the first half of a trial is spent arguing over who is at fault.…

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Jul 2, 2026

Wrongful Death of Stone Foltz & Bowling Green, Wood County, OH Fraternity Hazing Lawsuits — Attorney911 Holds Pi Kappa Alpha International and Local Chapters Accountable for Fatal 0.35 BAC Forced Intoxication, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Our Active Lead Counsel Role in the $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Litigation, We Pursue National Organizations for Negligent Supervision Under Ohio Anti-Hazing Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows the Fraternal Claims Machine, We Secure Group Chats and Internal Risk Audits Before the Evidence Clock Runs Out, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Sofa Where a Legacy Ended There is a moment in every tragedy that defines the negligence involved, and in the case of a 20-year-old student at Bowling Green State University, that moment happened on an apartment sofa. After being allegedly forced to consume an entire bottle of high-proof alcohol in under 18 minutes—reaching a blood alcohol content of 0.35, more than four times the legal limit—Stone Foltz was not taken to a hospital. He was not monitored. He was allegedly dropped off at his apartment and left alone on a couch to die. When we look at a wrongful death claim, we aren’t just looking at the final cause of death. We are looking at the system that allowed it to happen. Hazing is not a “tradition”; it is a systemic failure of supervision and a blatant disregard for human life. We examine the choices made by the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity, the local Delta Beta Chapter, and the individuals who stood by while a student was poisoned in the name of “brotherhood.” If your family is moving through the aftermath of a student safety violation, you are likely facing an army of corporate defense lawyers and insurance adjusters whose only job is to protect the organization’s assets. At Attorney911, we act as the shield for families in crisis. We dig into the internal records, the deleted group chats, and the history of the organization to prove that what happened was not an accident—it was the predictable result…

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Jul 2, 2026

Mead High School Football Sexual Assault & Racial Hazing Lawsuit — Attorney911 holds Spokane County, Washington school districts liable for failed mandatory reporting and institutional discrimination, we pursue liability when coaches ignore “sacrifice” massage gun assaults and foreseeable harm, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ years of federal-court trial practice and active $10M+ hazing litigation experience, Lupe Peña the former insurance-defense insider who knows the risk-management playbook, preserving cell phone evidence and staff correspondence before the overwrite, millions recovered in catastrophic injury cases — Free 24/7 consultation, No fee unless we win, 1-888-ATTY-911, Hablamos Español

The Mead High School Hazing Verdict: When “Foreseeable Harm” Becomes a $17 Million Reality We know the gut-wrenching feeling of trusting an institution with your child only to have that trust shattered. In Spokane County, a unanimous jury just sent a message that every school district in Washington must hear: silence in the face of brutality is not a defense; it is a confession. The $17 million verdict against the Mead School District is not just a number. It is a line in the sand for child safety. The facts of this case involve what court documents call “the sacrifice”—a violent ritual where football players were pinned down and sexually assaulted with a pulsating massage gun. This wasn’t a one-time lapse in judgment. It was a systemic culture of impunity that flourished at summer camps held at Eastern Washington University in 2022 and 2023. Our trial team examines these cases not as “unfortunate accidents,” but as institutional failures where adult supervisors watched, waited, and walked away while children were being destroyed. If your child was harmed in an environment where they should have been safe, you are likely feeling isolated and overwhelmed. We work until the truth is exposed. We understand the specific laws that govern school liability in Washington, and we know how to move through the wall of silence that districts build to protect their reputations. Mandatory Reporting and the Law: Why the Mead School District Failed Washington law is clear about the duties of those who work…

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Jul 2, 2026

Sawyer Updike UT Austin Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death Litigation — Attorney911 Pursues Sigma Chi International and the Alpha Nu House Corporation for the Physical Torture and Forced Substance Consumption Leading to Student Fatality, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, We Secure the Cell Phone Photos and Group Chats of Fishhook and Cigarette Burn Injuries Before Digital Spoliation, Texas Hazing and Wrongful Death Act Claims for Survival Damages and Pre-Death Suffering, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider in Austin, Travis County, Texas, Millions Recovered for Bereaved Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Reality of Hazing in Austin, Travis County, Texas Universities When you send your child to a university like the University of Texas at Austin, you expect they are entering a world of opportunity and brotherhood. You do not expect them to enter a world of physical and psychological torture. For families in Austin, Travis County, Texas, the horror of fraternity hazing is no longer a rumor or a “trade secret” — it is a documented cause of physical destruction and death. As we look at the facts of the recent tragedy involving a freshman at UT Austin, we see a pattern of “brotherhood” used as a mask for systemic abuse. The allegations involve horrific acts: spearing a student with a large fishhook, burning him with cigarettes, and using a staple gun on his body. This isn’t a rite of passage; it is criminal assault. When these acts are combined with forced drug and alcohol consumption, the result is often a psychological crisis that can lead to a tragic loss of life. Our wrongful death claim lawyers know that these cases are about more than just a single night of bad decisions. They are about an institutional failure that allows a culture of violence to persist even when a chapter is already on probation. If your family is facing this nightmare, you need to know your rights under Texas law before the evidence is scrubbed. Your Legal Rights Under the Texas Hazing Act Texas has some of the strictest anti-hazing…

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Jul 2, 2026

Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Represents Families in the Timothy Piazza Tragedy in University Park, Pennsylvania, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Trial Practice & Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the National Organizations and Local Chapters Behind Forced Consumption and the 12-Hour Delay in Emergency Care, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Cases, We Secure the Security Footage and Digital Logs That Prove Conscious Pain and Suffering Under the Pennsylvania Survival Act, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Holding Institutions Accountable for University Park, Pennsylvania Hazing Deaths When a parent sends a child to a university like Penn State, there is an unspoken agreement of safety. You trust the institution, the student organizations, and the student leaders to look out for one another. In University Park, Pennsylvania, that trust was shattered in 2017 when Timothy Piazza lay dying on a fraternity couch for twelve excruciating hours while the people who were supposed to be his “brothers” failed to pick up a phone. If you are reading this because your family is facing a similar nightmare, we know that no amount of criminal sentencing or civil recovery can fill the empty chair at your table. However, while the criminal system punishes the wrongdoers with jail time, the civil system is the only tool powerful enough to force industry-wide safety changes and secure your loved one’s legacy. Our firm handles wrongful death claim lawyer cases in Pennsylvania, and we focus on the specific failures that lead to these tragedies. In cases involving extreme alcohol coercion and the failure to render aid, the case is won on the timeline of indifference. The Timeline of Indifference: Why the 12-Hour Delay Is the Heart of the Case In the incident at Beta Theta Pi, the evidence documented a blood-alcohol content between 0.28 and 0.36—a life-threatening level of impairment. But the legal core of the case isn’t just the forced drinking; it is the 12 hours that followed. Security camera footage captured the victim…

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