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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Battery Attorneys, Johnny Powell Hospitalized Five Days After a Corkscrew Was Drilled Into His Hand, Canes and Bottle Caps in Kappa Alpha Psi Pledging Rituals at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity-Hazing Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization and Local Chapter for Gross Negligence and Negligent Supervision, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Preserve the Medical Records and Pledge Communications Before Deletion, Maryland Law Holds That No One Consents to an Illegal Battery, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baltimore, Maryland Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit Lawyer You are reading this at an hour when most people are asleep. Something happened to you — or to someone you love — inside a fraternity ritual that was never a ritual at all. It was a beating. Maybe you are the one who spent five days in a hospital bed with a hand that was drilled with a corkscrew. Maybe you are the parent who got the phone call from the ER at Coppin State and drove through Baltimore in the dark not knowing what you would find. Either way, you already know the question that brought you here: can anyone actually be held accountable for what happened inside that room? The answer is yes. Maryland law does not protect people who do this. It never has. And the fact that the people who hurt you called it “tradition” is the first lie we are going to dismantle. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Maryland hazing and battery cases, working with local counsel where required, and we have an active hazing lawsuit right now that is teaching us exactly how these organizations operate, defend themselves, and try to silence the people they hurt. Our hazing litigation practice page lays out what we do. The call is free. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. The number is 1-888-ATTY-911, and a live human answers it at any…

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Jul 3, 2026

Connecticut Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Injury Attorneys — UConn Phi Gamma Delta Pledge Hospitalized at Four Times the Legal Limit: Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and the Local Chapter Behind an Ongoing Culture of Hazing, We Secure the University Sanction Letter, Pledge-Event Communications and Toxicology Records Before They Disappear, Connecticut Social-Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, 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 UConn’s Phi Gamma Delta Chapter — and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, your son or daughter may have come home from a fraternity event in an ambulance. Or you are the student who woke up in a hospital bed with no memory of how you got there, tubes in your arms, a toxicology report showing a blood alcohol level that should have killed you. You may be sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a university sanction letter in front of you, trying to understand how a “pledge event” turned into a near-death experience — and who is going to answer for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Connecticut hazing injury cases, and we are lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity right now. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims — and now he sits on your side of the table. We know how these organizations operate, how their insurers think, and how to build the case that holds them accountable. This page is about what happened at the University of Connecticut’s Phi Gamma Delta chapter — known as FIJI — on February 24, 2020, when a student pledge was hospitalized with acute…

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Jul 3, 2026

Ole Miss Fraternity Hazing & Chemical-Ingestion Injury Attorneys — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Fraternity and Gamma Iota Chapter After a Blindfolded Pledge Was Sprayed With Bleach at the Chapter House on Poole Drive in Oxford, Mississippi, Esophageal Damage and Elevated Cancer Risk Requiring Hospitalization, We Secure the University Investigation Files, Witness Statements and Pledge-Period Digital Communications Before They Disappear, 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 Who Knows How the Fraternal Claims Machine Values and Denies, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Mississippi’s Hazing Statute and Punitive Damages for Gross Negligence When a Chapter Sprays Caustic Cleaner Into a Pledge’s Mouth During Active Probation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Blindfolds Your Son and Poisons Him: The Pi Kappa Alpha Hazing at Ole Miss You are reading this at a hour when most people are asleep, and the thing that brought you here is not a curiosity — it is a wound. Your son went to Oxford to join something. A brotherhood, a community, a home away from home. He was blindfolded with his own necktie, told to open his mouth, and someone he was supposed to trust sprayed a caustic chemical into it. He swallowed two or three gulps of bleach or surface cleaner before he realized it was not water. He vomited. He went to the hospital the next day when the vomiting would not stop. And now a doctor is telling you about esophageal damage and cancer risk, and a fraternity is suspended for four years, and a group of parents is circulating a petition asking the university to go easier on the chapter — and you cannot find a single person who will say plainly what you already know: your son was poisoned. We will say it. Your son was poisoned. What happened on Poole Drive at the Pi Kappa Alpha house was not a prank, not a tradition, not “boys being boys.” It was a criminal act of aggravated assault committed against a blindfolded person who could not see what was coming, inside a ceremony designed to strip him of every defense he had. And the fraternity that hosted it had already…

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Jul 3, 2026

UCSB Student Ryan Michalski’s Fatal Fall and Blunt-Force Head Trauma on Sigma Nu’s Unsanctioned Running Springs Trip — Attorney911 Investigates the National Fraternity and Chapter Officers Behind the Annual Big Bear Trip That Violated University Prohibitions, We Subpoena GroupMe and Snapchat Logs Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful-Death Act, Survival Action for Ryan’s Four Days at Loma Linda, and Matt’s Law Anti-Hazing Liability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurance Towers Are Defended, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $5M+ in Brain-Injury Settlements — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Running Springs Fraternity Death: When “Unsanctioned” Means Liability, Not Absolution If your family is reading this, you already know the worst part — a young person you loved is gone, and the institution that put him on that mountain is calling it an “unsanctioned event” as if that label somehow makes the death less their responsibility. It does not. It makes it more. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and we need you to understand something from the first sentence: “accidental” in a sheriff’s report and “unavoidable” in a courtroom are two completely different words. The first describes what happened. The second is what the fraternity wants you to believe. Our job is to prove the difference, and in California, the law gives us powerful tools to do exactly that — including Matt’s Law, the state’s hazing statute that strips away the “he consented” defense and lets a family hold a fraternity accountable even when the trip was supposedly off the books. The death happened on a mountain — Running Springs, San Bernardino County, at roughly 6,000 feet along State Route 18, where the terrain drops off steeply and the cabins that students rent for fraternity weekends sit on properties with rocky outcroppings, uneven ground, and fall hazards that a city kid would never think to look for. A second-year UCSB student and Sigma Nu member fell, sustained severe blunt force trauma to his head, was transported down the mountain to Loma Linda University Medical Center, and survived for…

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Jul 3, 2026

IU Hazing Injury & Fraternity Accountability Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Local Chapter and Housing Corporation Behind Chi Phi’s Suspension and Disbandment for Hazing at Indiana 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 Fraternity CGL Policies and Hazing Exclusions Work, We Pull the GroupChats, IUPD Investigative Files and Student-Life Disciplinary Records Before They Are Deleted, Indiana’s Anti-Hazing Law Makes Consent No Defense Under the Comparative-Fault Rule, the 180-Day Tort-Claim Notice Clock If the University Is a Party, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Indiana University Suspended Chi Phi for Hazing — What That Means for Injured Students and Their Families If your son or daughter is coming home from Indiana University quieter than when they left — if there are bruises they will not explain, if the phone goes dark when you ask about the fraternity, if a hospital bracelet appeared in a drawer and was never mentioned — you are reading this at the moment the university has just confirmed what you already feared. On December 19, 2025, Indiana University’s Office of Student Life suspended the Chi Phi fraternity chapter and ordered it to cease all activities and disband. That was not the first warning. It was the third disciplinary action in a single academic year. Chi Phi had already been barred from recruitment and new-member activities from August 19 to October 28, 2025, for hazing. Then, on November 18, 2025, the university placed the chapter on cease and desist — again, for hazing. By the time the disbandment order came down, the pattern was undeniable: this chapter had been told to stop, did not stop, and was finally shut down. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Indiana hazing cases, working with local counsel where required, and right now we are telling you something the university’s press release did not: the suspension is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of accountability. When a university itself determines that a fraternity’s…

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Jul 3, 2026

University of Utah Sigma Nu Hazing Lawsuit Attorneys: Salt Lake City Fraternity Liability Lawyers at Attorney911 Pursue Sigma Nu’s National Organization, Chapter Officers, Alumni and Housing Corporation After the University Confirmed Coerced Alcohol Consumption, Blindfolded Pledges Taken to Exotic Dance Clubs, Illegal-Drug Coercion and Forced Overnight Basement Confinement as Violent Hazing, 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 National Fraternity Carriers Invoke Hazing Exclusions to Deny Coverage, We Subpoena Chapter Communications and National Consultant Reports Before They Disappear, Utah Law Bars Hazing Defendants From Arguing the Pledge Consented and Authorizes Punitive Damages for Reckless Indifference, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Salt Lake City Sigma Nu Hazing — What the University of Utah Found and What Your Rights Actually Are You are reading this at an hour when most people are asleep because what happened to you does not let you sleep. Maybe you were the pledge blindfolded and driven to a club you never agreed to enter. Maybe you are the parent who found out your son was told to buy illegal drugs to pass an interview. Maybe you cleaned that fraternity house at three in the morning after a party you did not throw, slept on a basement floor you were not allowed to leave, and memorized songs and member information until your eyes burned — and you have been told, by people who were not there, that you “chose” this. You did not choose this. The University of Utah spent months investigating and concluded in a formal, dated letter that what happened to you met all three categories of hazing — subtle, harassment, and violent. That word came from the Vice President for Student Affairs. It is now a public record. The national fraternity suspended its own charter. The chapter cannot reapply until 2031. That is not a rumor or a lawyer’s argument — it is the institution’s own finding, and it is the first piece of evidence in a case that can hold every person and entity responsible for what was done to you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial…

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Jul 3, 2026

Phi Kappa Psi Hazing Hospitalizations at Indiana University in Bloomington: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Housing Corporation Behind a Chapter Already Suspended for Hazing in 2015, at Least Two Students Hospitalized After Late-Night Hazing, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the GroupMe and Snapchat Communications Before Remote Deletion and the Security Camera Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Indiana’s Anti-Hazing Criminal Statute and the Power-Imbalance Doctrine That Defeats Any Assumption-of-Risk Defense, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the National Fraternity’s Carrier Values and Denies These Claims, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana Fraternity Hazing Lawyer — Phi Kappa Psi IU Hospitalization Claims If your son or daughter is in a hospital bed tonight because of what happened at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on the night of October 15 or the early morning of October 16, you are reading this page for one reason, and it is the most urgent reason there is: the evidence of what was done to your child is being erased right now, while you sit here. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Tonight, while you read this, members of that chapter are deleting GroupMe threads, clearing Snapchat conversations, and coordinating what to say to the Indiana University Police Department. Every message that proves this hazing was planned, every photo from inside that house, every text that shows who was in charge and who was forcing what — all of it can be gone before the sun comes up. And once those messages are deleted from a phone, they do not come back. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are currently litigating a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university, and we know precisely how these cases are built, what the fraternity’s lawyers will try to do to your family, and what has to be frozen before it disappears. The call is free. The number is 1-888-ATTY-911. We answer 24 hours a day — a live person, not an answering service. This page is the…

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Jul 3, 2026

MSU Fraternity Hazing & Sexual Assault Attorneys: Pi Kappa Alpha, Theta Delta Chi, Sigma Tau Gamma — Attorney911 litigates the national fraternity organizations, the local chapters, and Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan for Title IX deliberate indifference when mandatory reports from the university’s own senior leadership went uninvestigated, basement curb stomping and forced confinement that sent pledges to the emergency room, sexual assault at Theta Delta Chi and Sigma Tau Gamma, 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 attorney who knows how the claims machine values and denies institutional-liability cases, we preserve the GroupMe logs, the Advocate case-management records, and the police referral files before they are purged, Michigan rejects the consent defense in hazing contexts and the Stop Campus Hazing Act now demands transparency, the firm has recovered $50M+ for injury victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Fraternity Hazing, Sexual Abuse, and the University That Looked Away If you are reading this at 2 a.m. in an East Lansing dorm room, or from a parent’s kitchen table in a town hours from campus, you already know something went wrong at a fraternity house on or near Michigan State University. Maybe your son came home with a mark across his face and a story he cannot finish telling. Maybe your daughter walked out of a frat house at 7 a.m. on a Tuesday and told a stranger she had just been sexually assaulted. Maybe you are the one who was hit, or curb-stomped, or forced into a basement, and you are trying to figure out whether what happened to you was a crime, a violation, or something the law can actually reach. It was all three. And we can help. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Michigan cases, and right now we are looking at what happened across multiple fraternities at MSU — Pi Kappa Alpha, Theta Delta Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Tau Gamma, and Alpha Phi — where reports of violent hazing and sexual abuse were filed by the university’s own senior administrators, and where MSU’s own police department and Title IX office chose not to investigate, citing a “lack of named victims looking to participate.” We have an active hazing lawsuit against a fraternity right now — the $10 million Bermudez…

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Jul 3, 2026

Texas A&M Kappa Sigma Hazing Injury Attorneys — Pledges Hospitalized with Rhabdomyolysis After 300-500 Forced Squats to Exhaustion in Mud at the College Station Lodge in Brazos County, Texas: Attorney911 Already Litigating the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the National Kappa Sigma Organization and Its Chapter Behind the Workout That Caused Black Urine, Vomiting and Loss of Consciousness, We Move to Preserve the GroupMe and Discord Chat Logs Before the Rat-Hunt Wipe, the Medical Records Showing CPK Levels from Muscle Breakdown That Can Cause Kidney Failure, Texas Anti-Hazing Law Provides Civil and Criminal Accountability Plus Punitive Damages for Gross Negligence and the Cover-Up That Told Pledges to Lie to Doctors, 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

When “Brotherhood” Puts Your Son in the Hospital — College Station Hazing Injury Lawyer The phone call comes from an emergency room in College Station. Your son cannot walk. His urine is the color of used motor oil. He is twenty years old and a fraternity pledge, and the people who called themselves his brothers put him there — and then told him to lie about how it happened. You are reading this at two in the morning, terrified, and you need to know three things right now: what is happening inside his body, who is responsible for putting him there, and what you do in the next seventy-two hours to protect his health and his rights. That is what this page is for. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we build hazing cases in Texas. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, any day. The consultation is free, and we do not get paid unless we win your case. On September 14, 2025, several pledges of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Texas A&M University were taken to an off-campus property called the Kappa Sigma Lodge and forced through what one victim described as an “almost torturous” workout. They were made to squat — hands on heels, synchronized as a group — three hundred, four hundred, five hundred times. In the mud. In the dark, with lights shone in their faces, members screaming at them. Pledges passed out. Others vomited. The exercise kept going. In the…

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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Rhabdomyolysis Injury Attorneys: Texas A&M Pledges Left Unable to Walk With Black Urine from Extreme Rituals — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Individual Members Behind the Pledging, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the GroupMe and Snapchat Logs, the Medical Records Showing Myoglobin and CK Levels, and the Surveillance Footage Before It Overwrites, the Texas Hazing Act Makes Consent No Defense and Opens the Door to Punitive Damages, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Texas A&M Kappa Sigma Hazing: When “Black Urine” Means Your Child’s Body Is Eating Itself The phone call from College Station came at a hour no parent should have to answer. Your son is in the hospital. He cannot walk. His urine is the color of dark tea or cola — what the nurses called “black urine.” And someone used a word you have never heard before: rhabdomyolysis. We are going to tell you exactly what that word means, what is happening inside your child’s body right now, and what the law gives you the power to do about it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in Texas courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he is lead counsel in an active ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a University of Houston fraternity. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where claims are priced and delays are engineered — before he chose to sit on your side of the table. He conducts full consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. What happened to your son at Kappa Sigma is not a “tradition.” It is not “boys being boys.” It is a catastrophic medical event caused by deliberate physical abuse, and under the Texas Hazing Act, the people who organized it — and the institutions that let them — are legally answerable for every damaged muscle fiber, every clogged kidney tubule, and every day your child spends learning to walk again.…

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