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Jul 22, 2026

Maxwell Gruver, an 18-Year-Old LSU Freshman, Died of Alcohol Poisoning and Aspiration in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Ritual — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternity Organizations Accountable for Hazing Wrongful Death, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pursue the National Organization, the Local Chapter and the Members Who Furnished Lethal Alcohol to a Pledge Under Coercive Conditions, Louisiana’s Civil-Law Duty-Risk Analysis and Anti-Hazing Doctrine, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Reports Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, 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 a Fraternity Takes Your Child: What Louisiana Law Says About Hazing Death If you are reading this, your family has been hit by something that should never have happened. Your son went to college — maybe just weeks ago, maybe just days — and a fraternity turned a promise of brotherhood into a death sentence. The phone call you got was not supposed to come. The room he died in was supposed to be a place where he made friends, not where he took his last breath. We know no words on a page can undo that. What we can do is tell you, plainly and completely, what the law actually says, what the institutions that let this happen are already doing to protect themselves, and what you can still do to hold them accountable. A Baton Rouge jury returned a $6.1 million verdict for the family of an 18-year-old Louisiana State University freshman who died of acute alcohol poisoning and aspiration during a hazing ritual at a fraternity house in 2017. His blood-alcohol content was reported at six times the legal driving limit. He had been enrolled at LSU for approximately one month. The verdict is real, it is public record, and it sends a message — but it does not bring anyone back. What it does is confirm what families already know: this was not an accident, and it was not your child’s fault. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death…

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Jul 22, 2026

Settlement reached in NMSU hazing lawsuit – KOAT

Las Cruces NMSU Hazing Settlement: What an $8 Million Resolution Means for Student-Athlete Sexual Assault Victims If you are reading this because your child came home from college changed — quieter, flinching at sounds, dropping a sport they loved, unable to explain what happened inside a team culture that was supposed to protect them — you are in the right place. What happened at New Mexico State University is not an isolated story. It is a pattern that plays out at universities across this country, and the $8 million settlement those young men and their families reached is proof that the law recognizes what was done to them as real, compensable, and wrong. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes New Mexico cases, and we are writing this page as a resource for every family in Las Cruces and across this state who needs to understand what happened at NMSU, what the law says about it, and what to do if it happened to someone you love. We were not counsel in the NMSU case. We are here because what happened there is not unique, and the families who come next deserve to know exactly what their rights are, how the deadlines work, and how the evidence that proves a hazing case can disappear before anyone tells you it was there. What Happened at NMSU: $8 Million and a Basketball Season Canceled Public reporting confirms the basic outline. Two former NMSU…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Hazing & Sexual Abuse by Coaching Staff in Kingfisher, Oklahoma: A Fight-Club Football Culture, Negligent Supervision and a $5M Settlement Taxpayers Now Bear — Attorney911 with 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, We Pursue the School System, the Coaching Staff and the Administrators Who Failed Their Mandatory Reporting Duties, We Secure Personnel Files, Student Complaint Records and Locker-Room Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Title IX and Oklahoma’s Anti-Hazing and Child-Abuse Reporting Laws, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kingfisher School Hazing Settlement: What Happened, What the Law Says, and What You Can Still Do If your child played football at Kingfisher High School — or if you are a parent in any Oklahoma community who suspects a coach crossed the line from discipline into abuse — you are reading this at a moment when the institution you trusted most has become the one that failed your family. A small town of roughly 5,000 people along U.S. Highway 81, about 35 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, just learned that its school board voted 4-1 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the head football coach and other coaches encouraged what has been described as a “fight club-like culture” of bullying, hazing, and abuse — including sexual abuse. The settlement totals $5 million, with $1.25 million paid from district funds and $3.75 million assessed to approximately 5,000 property owners over three years, potentially raising property taxes by up to 12%. The district also paid $1.4 million in legal fees. The coach now faces criminal child neglect charges and will never coach at the district again. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Oklahoma cases, working with local counsel where required. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where claims like yours are priced and denied…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death, University Park, Pennsylvania: Timothy Piazza, 19, Penn State Sophomore, Dead After Beta Theta Pi Pledge Ritual Produced a 0.28–0.36 BAC, a Fall Down Basement Stairs, and a Delayed 911 Call While Security Cameras Recorded His Final Hours — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization, the Local Chapter, the House Corporation and the University’s Greek-Life Oversight, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Security Footage, Fraternity Texts and University Oversight Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Pennsylvania Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Plus the Furnishing-to-Minors Prohibition That Undermines the Comparative-Fault Defense, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

University Park, Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Death: The Civil Liability Framework for Hazing Wrongful Death If you are reading this because your child was hospitalized after a fraternity event — or because someone you love did not come home from one — you are in a moment where the ground has dropped out from under you. The phone call, the hospital waiting room, the police officer at your door: those moments do not feel like the beginning of a legal process. They feel like the end of a life. But the law has something to say about what happened, and what it says matters. We are writing this page because a case in University Park, Pennsylvania — the 2017 hazing death of 19-year-old Penn State sophomore Timothy Piazza at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity — just reached the end of its criminal proceedings. Two former fraternity leaders, the chapter president and vice president, were sentenced to two to four months in prison with work release, three years of probation, and community service. They had pleaded guilty to 14 counts of hazing and one count of reckless endangerment. They were the last criminal defendants sentenced in a case that changed Pennsylvania law. The criminal process has concluded. The civil questions are different, and they are the questions this page answers: Who can be held financially accountable when a fraternity hazing ritual kills a student? What does Pennsylvania law allow a family to recover? How does the civil system reach the institutions —…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Death in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Warehouse Owner Behind the Pledging Ritual That Killed a 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior — Repeated Blunt Chest Trauma, No 911 Call, a Fabricated Basketball Story at the Hospital, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage and Group-Chat Records Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is Among the Shortest in the Nation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — What Louisiana Law Allows, What the Evidence Shows, and Why the Clock Is Already Running If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it was days ago and the grief is still a physical weight in your chest. Maybe it has been weeks and the shock has hardened into something worse — the slow, grinding realization that the people who killed your child are still walking around, still free, still telling themselves stories about what happened. You came here because you heard about what happened at Southern University — a 20-year-old junior, a mechanical engineering student, a trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — dropped off at a hospital unresponsive at midnight, with a group of young men claiming he collapsed playing basketball. You heard that the police chief said it was a lie. That he died because he was punched in the chest, over and over, inside a warehouse, while pledging a fraternity. That no one called 911. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes fraternity hazing wrongful death cases — and right now, we are the only firm in the country actively litigating a multi-million-dollar hazing wrongful death lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. That case is in Texas. This page is about what Louisiana law allows when the same thing happens here, in Baton Rouge, at Southern University, at a warehouse off Airline Highway or Florida Boulevard where…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Student Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi and Every Individual Behind the Boxing-Glove Pledging Ritual Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Commotio Cordis: How Four Chest Punches With Only a Small Bruise Trigger Fatal Cardiac Arrest, We Preserve Off-Campus Surveillance, Participant Cell-Phone Records and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Clock Runs, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, 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 a Hazing Ritual Becomes a Death Sentence: Your Family’s Rights in Louisiana You are reading this because someone you love is gone. Not from a disease they couldn’t fight, not from an accident nobody could prevent — from a ritual. A ritual that young men designed, organized, and ran in a room in Baton Rouge, where they put boxing gloves on their hands and punched your son in the chest until his heart stopped. And then, when he fell, not one of them picked up a phone. They watched. They waited. And when they finally carried him to a hospital, they lied about what happened and walked out the door before anyone could ask them the truth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana cases, and we know what hazing does to families because we are living it right now in another case. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a fraternity at a major university. We know the culture. We know the cover-ups. We know the playbook the other side has already started running against your family. And we know the law Louisiana wrote specifically to hold fraternities accountable when their rituals kill. What happened at that off-campus location in Baton Rouge in late February 2025 was not an accident. It was a crime, and it was a civil wrong, and the people responsible include not just the young man…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Football Hazing, Sexual Assault & CSAM on a Hazing-National Multi-State Trip: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing-Institutional-Liability Case to School Trip Cases Where Coaches Knew and Dismissed Sexual Assault as Boys Being Boys, We Pursue the School, the Diocese and the Supervising Coaches Who Failed Their Mandatory-Reporter Duty, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Institutional Claims Are Valued and Denied, We Move to Preserve Snapchat Data and Player Devices Before Ephemeral Evidence Is Permanently Lost, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy and the Extended Filing Window for Childhood Sexual Abuse, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown School Hazing Lawsuit: Sexual Assault, CSAM, and Institutional Accountability Under Ohio Law If your child was on that football trip — if you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your son told you what happened to him in a hotel room in Florida or Alabama or Tennessee, and a coach called it “boys being boys” — you are in the right place. What happened to your child was not hazing. It was not a tradition. It was not a rite of passage. It was criminal sexual assault, it was kidnapping, and the recording and sharing of it on Snapchat was the production and dissemination of child sexual abuse material under federal law. The fact that adults who were paid to supervise your child knew about it and failed to stop it — and then dismissed your report with five words that will follow them into a courtroom — is what turns this from a tragedy into a case. We are Attorney911. We handle hazing and institutional sexual abuse cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a fraternity and a major university. That case, like this one, involves a young person entrusted to an institution that failed to protect him. The medicine of sexual trauma, the law of institutional negligence, the evidence-preservation clock on digital recordings — these are not abstract subjects to us. They are the work we do. This page is not a sales pitch. It is the full…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Hazing, Sexual Assault & Child Pornography at Ursuline High School’s Football Camp in Youngstown, Ohio: A Minor Player Assaulted by Teammates and Recorded on Snapchat, His Mother’s Report to a Coach Dismissed as Boys Being Boys — Attorney911 Pursues Catholic Dioceses and Schools in Hazing and Sexual Assault Cases Under Title IX Deliberate Indifference and Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Snapchat Records and Device Forensics Before the Evidence Degrades, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown, Ohio School Hazing & Sexual Assault: Title IX, Institutional Liability, and Your Family’s Rights If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child came home from a school trip changed — quieter, frightened, angry in ways that do not match the kid you put on that bus — you are in the right place. What happened to your child is not his fault. What the adults around him did with that information is something the law takes seriously. And the fact that you are here, searching, means the failure that started on that trip is about to meet someone who will not let it continue. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle hazing and sexual assault cases, and we currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and fraternity in Harris County, Texas. That case — like the one filed in Youngstown — involves a young person betrayed by the institution that was supposed to protect him. We take cases in Ohio, working with local counsel where required, and we have spent more than 27 years building cases against institutions that failed the people in their care. What follows is everything we know about this specific case, the law that governs it, and what your family should do — and refuse to do — in the hours and days ahead. What Happened at Ursuline High School: The Federal Complaint A 200-page federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for…

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Jul 22, 2026

Ursuline High School Hazing & Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds the Private School, Its Administrators and Coaching Staff Accountable When Football-Team Hazing Escalates to Physical and Sexual Assault and the Recording Is Shared — No Sovereign Immunity Shields a Private Institution, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Recording, the School’s Internal Communications and the Social Media Data Before Ephemeral Platforms Purge Them, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Law and the Mandatory-Reporting Duty That School Personnel Owe to Students, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ohio School Hazing & Sexual Assault: What the Law Says When the Adults Who Were Supposed to Protect Your Child Did Nothing You are reading this at a time you never planned for. Something happened to your child at a school you trusted — a school you may have chosen specifically because you believed it would keep him safe. Now there is a lawsuit on the public record, and the details in it are the kind no parent is ever ready to read. A student was hazed. Physically assaulted. Sexually assaulted. And someone recorded it and sent it to other people. The lawsuit says the adults at the school — the principal, the assistant principal, the head football coach, the assistant coaches — learned what happened and did not do what they were supposed to do. The Friday night game got cancelled. The season stopped. And your family is sitting in the middle of something that should never have happened in the first place. We are going to tell you what the law actually says about this — in Ohio, in plain language, without legal jargon designed to make you feel like you need a translator to understand your own rights. We are going to tell you what evidence is already disappearing and why the clock on that is shorter than you think. We are going to tell you what a case like this is worth, honestly, and what the school and its lawyers are already doing to protect the…

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Jul 22, 2026

Youngstown Catholic School Hazing & Sexual Assault Attorneys — A Freshman Stripped, Assaulted, and Filmed for Team Snapchat on the Ursuline High School Football Trip Across Four States, Attorney911 Pursues the School, the Diocese of Youngstown, and the Coaching Staff Behind Negligent Supervision That Let Hazing Become Sexual Assault — 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, We Preserve Snapchat Content and Student Devices Before Auto-Expiry Wipes the Evidence, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Cause of Action and Federal Child-Pornography Statutes, In Loco Parentis Duty of Care, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ursuline High School Hazing Lawsuit: Your Child’s Legal Rights After School Sexual Assault If your child came home from a school sports trip and told you something happened — something that made you sick to your stomach, something you can barely say out loud — you are in the right place. What you do in the next few weeks may matter more than anything that has happened so far, and most of it is about evidence that is disappearing right now. A federal lawsuit filed by a former freshman football player at Ursuline High School in Youngstown, Ohio, alleges that during a nine-day football team trip in June, the student was subjected to a hazing “initiation” that included being attacked, assaulted, and stripped by several teammates. The abuse was filmed and posted to the team’s group Snapchat account. The complaint accuses the school and its coaching staff of negligent hiring, supervision, training, and retention — of knowing about a hazing culture and doing nothing to stop it — and further alleges cover-up and intimidation. The student, described by his family’s attorney as a sexual assault survivor experiencing significant trauma, has transferred to another school. We are not the lawyers on this case. We are writing to you — the parent reading this at 2 a.m., the guardian trying to understand what happened to a child you trusted to a school’s care — because the law gives you powerful tools and the clock on some of them is already running. Everything…

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