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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death Lawsuit: Baton Rouge Fraternity Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to East Baton Rouge Parish, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapters and the University That Failed to Prevent Foreseeable Hazing, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Warehouse Surveillance on a 30-Day Overwrite Cycle, Group-Chat Records and Hospital Intake Statements That Document the Cover-Up Before They Disappear, Commotio Cordis From Repeated Chest Blows During an Unsanctioned Pledging Ritual Where Members Delayed 911 and Gave False Information at the Hospital, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the State’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, 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 Hazing Wrongful Death: Who Can Be Held Accountable Under Louisiana Law If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child did not come home from a fraternity ritual — or because you are watching a family grieve a pledging death that should never have happened — you are in the hardest moment a parent can face. We are going to tell you exactly what Louisiana law allows, who can be held responsible, and what is disappearing from the evidence while you read this page. You have one year under Louisiana law to file a delictual claim. That clock started the day your child died. But the proof that wins the case — the warehouse surveillance, the text messages between fraternity members, the social media posts that show what happened before and after — that proof is dying faster than the clock, and nobody is preserving it for you unless someone sends the letter that freezes it. Louisiana wrote its anti-hazing law — the Max Gruver Act — after a freshman died at LSU in 2017. That statute criminalized the exact conduct that killed your child, and it also sets the civil standard of care in a way that gives your family a powerful advantage the generalist never reaches. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases in Louisiana, working with local counsel where required. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing, Sexual Abuse & Child Pornography on a Catholic School Football Trip — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel on the Active $10M+ Hazing Case to Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, We Hold the Diocese Behind Ursuline and the Administrators Who Knew and Failed to Protect Students Accountable, We Pursue Digital Forensics Recovery of Destroyed Social Media and Team Accounts Before the Evidence Window Closes, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Law and Mandatory Child-Abuse Reporting Obligations, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown School Hazing Lawsuit: Sexual Abuse, Child Pornography, and the Institution That Knew If your child was sexually abused, physically assaulted, or exploited on a school-sanctioned trip — and the adults who were supposed to protect him did nothing, or worse, covered it up — you are living inside something no parent should have to survive. You are reading this at a hour when the house is quiet and the anger and the grief are the loudest things in the room. We are going to tell you exactly what the law says, what the school is doing right now to slow this down, and what evidence is dying while they do it. A federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, before Judge Benita Pearson, alleges that during a June 2025 Ursuline High School football team trip, multiple student-defendants committed hazing, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and the production and distribution of child pornography against a minor identified in court documents as Son Doe. The complaint names the school, the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, the principal, the assistant principal, three football coaches, and eleven students — and it alleges that high-ranking school officials knew what was happening and failed to act, then destroyed evidence including social media posts and team accounts after a criminal investigation was underway or likely to begin. The victim’s sister, identified as Daughter Doe, separately claims she faced humiliation, intimidation, and retaliation — including being confronted at her workplace by…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Delta Tau Delta Hazing Death & Wrongful Death in Flagstaff, Arizona — After Three Fraternity Leaders Were Arrested, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Housing Entity Behind Pledge-Initiation Conduct That Killed an 18-Year-Old Student, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the TikTok Content, Cell-Phone Records and Fraternity-House Scene Before They Disappear, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule With No Damage Caps, the Arizona Tort Claims Act Notice Deadline for University Claims Is Running Now, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Flagstaff Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights After an NAU Student Died at Delta Tau Delta You are reading this at the worst moment of your life. Your child left for Northern Arizona University — 18 years old, standing at the threshold of everything — and now you are looking at a news story about three arrests at a fraternity house in Flagstaff where your child died. The police have done their part. The criminal charges have been filed. And you are sitting with a grief so heavy it has its own gravity, trying to understand whether anyone beyond the criminal court will ever answer for what happened. We are going to tell you what we know, what we do, and what is already running against you — because the same law that gives your family a civil claim also gives you a clock that started the moment your child died, and some of the proof that would win your case is being erased right now, tonight, while you read this. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We litigate hazing wrongful death cases, and we currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a fraternity and a university. We know what these cases look like from the inside — the evidence the fraternity will try to destroy, the insurance company’s playbook, the national organization’s defense strategy, and the timeline that can quietly extinguish your family’s right to hold the institution accountable. We handle cases in Arizona,…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Pledge’s Fatal Hazing in Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona: Attorney911 Holds National Fraternity Organizations and Universities Accountable When Hazing Forces 3.5 Liters of Vodka on Pledges and Hours Pass Before 911 Is Called, 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, We Preserve the Group Chats and the 3 AM Alcohol-Poisoning Search History Before the Evidence Disappears, Arizona’s Anti-Hazing Law and Wrongful-Death Act, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Flagstaff Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights Under Arizona Law If your family is reading this, your son is gone. He was 18 years old. He went to Northern Arizona University to get an education, and a fraternity ritual built around forcing pledges to drink lethal quantities of vodka took his life. People around you may be calling this a tragedy, an accident, a foolish mistake. The Coconino County judge who set bond said it appeared to be “a foolish incident that got out of hand.” We need you to hear something different, because the law says something different: what happened to your son was a crime. Arizona’s anti-hazing statute prohibits exactly this conduct. Three fraternity members have been arrested and charged. And the evidence already in the public record — the Google search for “alcohol poisoning” at 3 a.m. while your son lay unconscious and struggling to breathe, the five-hour wait before anyone called 911 — is proof that the people in that room recognized the emergency and chose not to act. That is not a foolish incident. Under Arizona law, that is conscious disregard for human life. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes Arizona hazing and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel where required. We are not your counsel on this specific case — we have not been retained, we have not been contacted, we have taken no action on this incident. What we are is a powerful resource: the education, the…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Pledge Colin Martinez, 18, Dead at 0.425% BAC After a Delta Tau Delta Vodka Hazing Ritual in Flagstaff — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Leaders Who Made Pledges Drink to Vomit, We Move to Preserve Group-Chat Data, Cell-Phone Symptom Searches and House Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, 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, Arizona Anti-Hazing Law, Social-Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor, the Wrongful-Death Statute With No Damage Caps and the Public-University Tort-Claims Notice Deadline Running, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Flagstaff NAU Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights After Arizona Alcohol Poisoning If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. An 18-year-old college freshman — a kid who walked onto Northern Arizona University’s campus in Flagstaff with his whole life ahead of him — is dead because a fraternity decided that making pledges vomit was worth risking their lives. The autopsy says his blood-alcohol level was 0.425%. That number is not a percentage — it is a death sentence written in someone else’s handwriting. A level that high kills. It is more than five times the legal driving limit and falls squarely in the range that doctors call generally fatal. He did not choose to die. He was 18 years old, and the people who held power over him pointed at two bottles of vodka and told him and three other young men to drink until they threw up. That is not a party. That is a hazing ritual, and under Arizona law, it is something the people who organized it, supervised it, and allowed it to continue are answerable for. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a fraternity in Texas. Lupe Peña spent years on the other side of this fight — inside a national insurance-defense firm, in…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to National Hazing Cases, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations and Local Chapters Behind Coerced Pledge Drinking Games Where an 18-Year-Old Reached a Lethal 0.425 BAC and Members Who Monitored Him Abandoned Him Without Calling 911, the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group-Chat Messages and Cell-Phone Records Before They Vanish, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Constitutional Prohibition on Damage Caps, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Son Was Poisoned — Not by Accident, but by a System That Let Him Die You sent your son to Northern Arizona University to learn, to grow, to find his community. You did not send him to die alone on the floor of an off-campus fraternity house in Flagstaff while the people who put him there went to sleep. The Coconino County Medical Examiner has now confirmed what happened: he died of acute ethanol toxicity. His blood alcohol concentration was 0.425 — a number that means his breathing was shutting down, that his brain was being starved of oxygen, and that the people watching him knew, or should have known, that he was dying. They did not call 911. They let him die. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity — a case that has taught us exactly how these organizations operate, how they try to escape accountability, and how to break through every wall they build. What follows is everything you need to know about what happened to your son, what Arizona law allows you to do about it, and why time is the enemy of evidence in a case like this. This page is legal information, not legal advice. But it is written by trial lawyers who know this fight. Everything here is yours — take it, use it, and…

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Jul 22, 2026

Judge seeks list of remaining defendants as Piazza family’s hazing lawsuit nears trial – WJAC

State College Hazing Wrongful Death: The Fraternity Lawsuit Approaching Trial in Centre County The call came at night, or it came in the morning, or it came while you were at work — but it came, and everything after it is divided into before and after. Your son, your brother, your grandson went to a fraternity event at college and did not come back. Or he came back changed, injured, broken in ways the hospital could describe but not undo. You are reading this page because you need to know what can be done about it, and you need to know now, while the evidence still exists and the deadline has not passed. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, including fraternity and sorority hazing litigation. One of our founders is currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit — that case is in Texas, not this one, but the machinery of a hazing case is the same wherever it is filed: the same defendant structures, the same insurance tactics, the same proof problems, the same human cost. We built this page to give you what we would want if we were sitting on your side of that kitchen table: the truth about what happened, what the law allows, what the fight looks like, and what to do next. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Contacting the firm is free and confidential. We don’t get paid unless we…

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Jul 22, 2026

Mead School District Hazing & Sexual Assault Liability: Attorney911 Holds School Systems Accountable When a Student-Athlete Is Pinned Down and Sexually Assaulted With a Massage Gun at a School-Sponsored Football Camp in Cheney, Spokane County, Washington — 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 & Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pursue the Districts That Conceal Hazing Reports and Delete Racial-Discrimination Findings, We Preserve the Investigation Files, Assault Video and Staff Communications Before They Are Altered, Title IX Deliberate-Indifference Standard and Washington’s Anti-Hazing and Mandatory-Reporter Framework, Severe Emotional Trauma and Racial-Harassment Injuries, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at That Football Camp — and What It Means for Every Family in Washington If your child was sexually assaulted at a school-sponsored athletic camp — pinned down by teammates and attacked while others recorded it on a phone — you are holding a fact no parent is prepared to receive. And if the school that sent your child to that camp then spent months calling it “roughhousing,” hiding the video, and editing the racial dimension out of the investigation report, the betrayal did not end with the assault. It continued in the offices of the people you trusted to protect your child. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle hazing and sexual assault cases against schools nationwide, and right now a jury in Spokane County Superior Court is deciding what the Mead School District owes two former students who were assaulted at a 2023 football camp at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. The court has already ruled the district is liable. The question is no longer whether the school failed these children. The question is what that failure is worth. The answer, based on the evidence that has come out at trial, is somewhere between $20 million and $50 million for the two victims combined. But the number is only part of the story. The deeper truth is how the system around these boys — the coaches, the athletic director, the superintendent — worked to keep their parents from finding out what happened…

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Jul 22, 2026

$17M Mead High School Football Hazing Verdict in Spokane County, Washington: Attorney911 Holds School Districts Accountable When Coaches and Administrators Violate Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Laws, 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 Institutional Defendants Behind the Sacrifice Ritual Where a Pulsating Massage Gun Was Pressed Into Minors’ Private Parts While Teammates Recorded Video, Title IX and Washington Anti-Hazing Act Violations, We Preserve the Assault Videos, Dormitory Surveillance and Internal Communications Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Spokane County, Washington School Hazing Verdict: What the $17 Million Mead High Football Case Means for Families If you are reading this page, you may be sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a child who has come home from a school sports camp changed — quieter, angrier, afraid in ways they were not before. You may have just learned that something happened to them on a trip the school was supposed to supervise. You may be furious, terrified, and completely unsure whether what was done to your child is the kind of thing a lawyer can actually do something about. It is. A Spokane County jury just answered that question with $17 million and a verdict that took fewer than two and a half hours to reach unanimously. That speed tells you everything about how clear the moral and legal picture was once twelve people heard the full story. We are Attorney911, and we build school hazing and institutional-negligence cases the same way that one was built — by proving the school knew, the school had a duty, and the school chose to do nothing. What happened at Mead High School’s football camp is a textbook of how institutions fail children, and the verdict is a textbook of how a community holds them accountable. The $17 Million Verdict — What a Spokane County Jury Decided On June 25, 2026, a Spokane County Superior Court jury awarded $17 million in damages to two former Mead High School football…

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Jul 22, 2026

College Hazing Wrongful Death in Lewisburg, PA: Calvin Dickey Jr., 18-Year-Old Bucknell Freshman Lineman with Known Sickle-Cell Trait, Collapsed During 100+ Forced Ups and Downs and Died Two Days Later — Attorney911 Pursues the University and the Athletic Department Behind the Workout, the Institution’s Own NCAA Self-Reports Documenting Prior Conditioning Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Video, the Medical-Conditions Spreadsheet and the 911 Recordings Before Footage Overwrites and Witnesses Transfer, Pennsylvania’s Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Civil Remedy, the Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for Two Days of Conscious Suffering, No Damage Caps Against Private Universities, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lewisburg Hazing Death Lawyer: When a University’s Negligence Kills a Student Athlete You sent your child to college to play a sport, and the sport killed him. That is the worst sentence a parent can read, and it is the one that starts every case like this. An 18-year-old freshman lineman arrived at Bucknell University in Lewisburg with a known medical condition — sickle-cell trait — that his coaches had been told about, that his strength coach had looked up on a spreadsheet the very morning of the workout, and that the NCAA has specific written protocols to protect. None of those protections mattered on July 10, 2024, because the man running the practice decided to make the players do approximately a hundred “ups and downs” — fall flat, stand up, repeat — until a young man who should never have been pushed that hard collapsed on the floor and never got up again. Two days later, Calvin Dickey Jr. was dead at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. The Montour County Coroner amended his death certificate to list the manner of death as homicide, with “forced exercise-induced sickle cell crisis” as a substantial factor. The Pennsylvania Attorney General filed criminal charges against the coach — involuntary manslaughter, aggravated hazing, hazing, and recklessly endangering another person. And the young man’s parents filed a civil lawsuit against the university that employed the coach, knew his history, and let him keep running workouts with medically vulnerable athletes. This page is for the family…

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