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Jul 3, 2026

Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of a Minor & Fraternity Institutional-Liability Attorneys — Four Class-C Felony Counts Filed After UT Student’s Arrest at Knoxville’s Beta Upsilon Chi Fraternity House, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice as Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Alpha Zeta Chapter and the University for Negligent Supervision and Premises Failures That Left a Minor Unprotected, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Electronic Devices and Fraternity Internal Communications Before Remote Wiping and Ephemeral-Message Deletion, Tennessee’s Extended Statute of Limitations for Childhood Sexual-Abuse Civil Actions and the Felony-Conviction Damages-Cap Waiver, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Knoxville Fraternity Sexual Exploitation of a Minor: BYX Arrest, Institutional Negligence & Your Child’s Civil Rights in Tennessee If you are reading this page, you may have just learned that your child was sexually exploited — and that the person arrested for it was a member of a fraternity at the University of Tennessee. The criminal system is moving. The civil system is a separate fight, and it is the fight that can pay for your child’s lifetime of healing. We are a trial firm that takes Tennessee cases, and we are going to tell you everything we know about this kind of case: the law, the evidence that is disappearing right now, the institutions that may answer for what happened, and what to do in the first days. You do not have to figure out which of those things matters first. We do that. The one thing that has to happen immediately — before anything else — is freezing the electronic evidence before it is erased. We will explain why below, because the clock on that is measured in hours, not weeks. What Happened at 1812 Fraternity Park Drive On March 18, 2026, a University of Tennessee student was arrested at the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity house at 1812 Fraternity Park Drive, inside Fraternity Park on the UTK campus. The arrest was logged by the University of Tennessee Police Department at 3:44 p.m. The charges: four counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor — a Class C felony…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of UB Freshman Sebastian Serafin-Bazan After Forced Physical Exercise Triggered Cardiac Arrest and Blunt-Force Trauma on Custer Street in Buffalo, Erie County, New York: Attorney911 Pursues the Sigma Pi National Organization, Its Former Epsilon-Omicron Chapter, and the Landlord Who Permitted the Hazing Ritual, the Pending Court-of-Claims Action Against the SUNY Institution, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Caps Settlements at Policy Limits, We Preserve Fraternity Communication Logs and Custer Street Security Footage Before the Overwrite Loop Erases Them, New York’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Conscious-Pain-and-Suffering Survival Claim for the Five Days Sebastian Lived, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Buffalo, Erie County, New York Sigma Pi Hazing Death: What Happened and What Your Family Can Still Do If your family is living through the aftermath of what happened to Sebastian Serafin-Bazan — an 18-year-old University at Buffalo freshman who died on April 17, 2019, five days after a Sigma Pi hazing ritual on Custer Street left him with a heart attack, blunt force injuries across his head, chest, back, and arms, and internal injuries no family should ever have to learn about — you already know that no check changes what happened. What you may not know is whether the $665,000 settlement with the national fraternity, its local chapter, three individual members, and a landlord was the full measure of accountability. It almost certainly was not. And the separate wrongful death claim your family filed against New York State and the University at Buffalo in the Court of Claims is where the real fight may still live. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial team that takes New York cases, working with local counsel where required, and right now we are lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity in Harris County. What follows is what we would tell you across a kitchen table, at any hour of the night, about what New York law actually says, what the evidence in this case shows, and what your family can still do. This page is legal…

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Jul 3, 2026

Dram Shop & Wrongful Death in Nashville: Riley Strain Found in the Cumberland River After a Lower Broadway Bar Overserved a Visibly Intoxicated MU Student and Ejected Him Into a Dangerous Riverfront Without Safe Escort — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Tennessee’s Beyond-a-Reasonable-Doubt Dram Shop Burden, We Pursue the Bar, the Fraternity and the Security Operation Behind the Over-Service and the Negligent Supervision of a Sanctioned Trip, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Surveillance Footage, POS Records and Toxicology Reports Before the Overwrite, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Tennessee’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Wrongful-Death Act Demand a Trial Lawyer Who Knows This Proof — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Nashville Dram Shop Wrongful Death: When a Bar’s Last Drink Costs a Life The phone call comes and your world splits in half. Your son went to Nashville with his fraternity brothers — a trip that was supposed to be fun — and now you are being told his body was found in the Cumberland River. You are hearing about a bar on Lower Broadway, about an ejection, about hours nobody can account for. And while you are still trying to understand how a living, breathing person ends up in a river, the machinery of the other side is already in motion — the bar’s statements are being shaped, the surveillance footage is on a countdown to erasure, and the fraternity’s group chats are quietly disappearing from phones. We are sorry you are reading this page. We are also glad you found it, because what happens in the next few weeks will decide whether the truth about your loved one’s death ever comes out in a courtroom, or whether it gets buried under “personal responsibility” and a footage loop that recorded over itself before anyone asked for it. Our trial team takes Tennessee wrongful death and dram shop cases. We work with local counsel in Tennessee where the rules require it, and we bring the same catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death experience we have built over more than two decades — including the active fraternity hazing lawsuit we are currently litigating — to bear on cases exactly like this one. The call…

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Jul 3, 2026

Jordan Hankins’ Hazing Wrongful Death at Northwestern in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois — Attorney911 Pursues Alpha Kappa Alpha, Its Chapters and Members Behind the Paddling, Sleep Deprivation and Verbal Abuse That Triggered Her PTSD and Suicidal Ideation, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Greek-Organization Insurers Set Reserves and Deny Under Hazing Exclusions, We Preserve the Group Chats, Pledging Records and Dorm Surveillance Before the Overwrite, Illinois Hazing Act Makes Hazing a Felony When It Causes Death, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Evanston Sorority Hazing Wrongful Death: When Pledging Turns Deadly and Who Pays Under Illinois Law You are reading this because someone you love is gone, and a Greek organization — a sorority that was supposed to build sisterhood, not destroy it — had something to do with it. Maybe it was hazing. Maybe it was weeks of paddling, sleep deprivation, verbal abuse, and financial exploitation that nobody stopped. Maybe your daughter, your sister, your child told the people hurting her that she was breaking — that the abuse was triggering old trauma, filling her head with suicidal thoughts — and they kept going. And now she is dead, and the sorority is sending condolences while its lawyers are already circling. We know this because this is exactly what happened at Northwestern University in Evanston, in Cook County, Illinois, and the family of that student filed a federal lawsuit to hold every layer of the organization accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We build wrongful death cases against institutions that let hazing kill. The first thing you need to know is this: what happened was not a personal failure of the person who died. It was the predictable, foreseeable result of a system of abuse that the people running it chose not to stop, even after they were told it was driving someone toward suicide. That is not an accident. Under Illinois law, that is a case. The Direct Answers: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Can…

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Jul 3, 2026

University of Alabama Hazing & Assault Lawsuit: Minor Pledge H.B. Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Concussive Syndrome After SAE Punching, Water-Hose and Basketball-to-Head Strike Causing Loss of Consciousness in Tuscaloosa — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Local Chapter for Negligent Supervision, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Against Pi Kappa Phi, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternal Insurers Deny Hazing Claims, We Secure GroupMe Texts and Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, We Pull Disciplinary Records Showing Prior Bad Acts, TBI ($5M+ Recovered), Alabama’s Anti-Hazing Statute Is Negligence Per Se, Pledges Cannot Consent Under Contributory-Negligence Law — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Tuscaloosa Fraternity Hazing: Your Rights When a Pledge Suffers a Brain Injury at the University of Alabama You are reading this because your son came home from a fraternity house with a brain injury, or you got a call from an emergency room in Tuscaloosa, or you are sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning trying to understand how a “pledge process” ended with a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury and post-concussive syndrome. You are angry, you are frightened, and you do not yet know whether the headaches and the memory gaps are going to follow your child for the rest of his life. We are going to tell you what the law says, what the fraternity’s insurance company is already doing, what evidence is dying while you read this, and what to do about all of it. This page is written for you, the parent, in the specific moment you are in — not as a brochure, but as the conversation a trial lawyer would have with you across that kitchen table if you could have one right now. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take Alabama hazing cases. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity — a case built on the same architecture of power, coercion, and institutional failure that produced the injury you are dealing with now. Lupe Peña,…

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Jul 3, 2026

Illinois Hazing & Institutional Liability Attorneys: Attorney911 Holds Northwestern University and the Athletic Department Leadership Behind Systemic Locker-Room Hazing That Devastates Former Football Players, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Preserve the Investigation Reports and Digital Communications Before They Are Sanitized, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, Illinois Hazing Law Duty of Care and Title IX Institutional Liability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Institutional Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Illinois Hazing Lawyer: Northwestern Settlement, Institutional Liability & Your Rights If you are reading this page, you or someone you love probably lived through something that was called “tradition” and felt like torture. Maybe you are a former college athlete who carried the weight of what happened in a locker room or an off-campus house for years, unable to name it because the people around you called it normal. Maybe you are a parent who just found out what your son or daughter endured behind a university’s athletic program — and you are furious, and frightened, and not sure what can still be done. Maybe you read that Northwestern University settled lawsuits with former football players who alleged systemic hazing, and you recognized your own story in theirs for the first time. We want you to hear one thing before anything else: a settlement does not mean the abuse did not happen. It means the institution decided to pay rather than face a Cook County jury. The confidential check is a tactical admission of risk by the school — not a vindication of the culture that produced the harm. And the fact that the players’ claims are resolved does not close the door on yours. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes institutional abuse cases, and we currently litigate hazing lawsuits against universities and Greek organizations. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña sat on the…

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Jul 3, 2026

Riley Strain Wrongful Death — Nashville Fraternity Drowning Attorneys: Attorney911 Holds Greek Organizations and Their National Chapters When Brothers Abandon a .228 BAC Student Near the Cumberland River’s Steep Embankments, We Preserve the Group Chats, Surveillance Footage and Risk-Management Manuals Before the 7-14 Day Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, 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 Behind Greek Life Values and Denies These Cases, the Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault 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

Nashville Fraternity Wrongful Death: What Happened to Riley Strain and Why It Was Preventable If you are reading this, you already know the outline of what happened. A University of Missouri student traveled to Nashville with his fraternity brothers for a weekend in March 2024. He was ejected from a bar on Lower Broadway while visibly intoxicated. He was separated from the group. He disappeared. Fourteen days later, his body was found in the Cumberland River. The medical examiner said drowning and ethanol intoxication — his blood alcohol content was .228, nearly three times the legal limit to drive. The manner of death was ruled an accident. We are a trial firm that takes Tennessee wrongful death cases, and we are writing this to one person — the parent, the sibling, the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a grief that has no edges, trying to understand whether what happened to your child was just bad luck or whether someone is legally responsible for it. The answer is the latter. What happened to Riley Strain was not a random misfortune that no one could have prevented. It was the foreseeable, predictable result of a fraternity that organized a trip, adopted safety policies designed to prevent exactly this kind of harm, and then abandoned those policies — and abandoned a young man — the moment following the rules became inconvenient. The family has now filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Delta Chi chapter…

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Jul 3, 2026

WSU Student Suicide & Wrongful Death Litigation: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Hazing-National Fraternity and Telehealth Malpractice Claims, We Pursue the Digital Health Platforms That Dispense Prescription Medication Without Psychiatric Screening and the Fraternal Organizations Behind Hazing Culture, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Portal Logs, Prescription Records and Fraternity Group Chats Before They Are Deleted, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Washington’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

WSU Student Suicide Lawsuit: Hims & Hers Telehealth Malpractice and Theta Chi Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death If you are reading this page, you have lost someone you love — a son, a brother, a friend, a student who had a whole life ahead of him — and you are trying to understand how it happened and who is responsible. You may be a parent who sent a child to Washington State University in Pullman and got the call no parent should ever receive. You may be searching at two in the morning, going through your son’s phone records, his prescriptions, his fraternity communications, trying to piece together a timeline that ends in a death you never saw coming. You are in the right place. We are going to tell you exactly how the law treats this kind of loss — what your family’s rights actually are, what the telehealth company and the fraternity are already doing to protect themselves, what evidence is disappearing right now while you read, and what a case like this is built from. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, and we handle wrongful-death cases involving corporate negligence and organizational failure. The call is free. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, and a real person — not a machine — will pick up. Can You Sue a Telehealth Company When a Student Dies by Suicide? Yes — and the answer matters now, because…

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Jul 3, 2026

Wrongful Death Hazing Attorneys in Austin, Travis County, Texas — Sawyer Lee Updike Took His Own Life After UT Fraternity Hazing and Illegal Drugs Pushed Him Into a Fatal Mental Health Crisis, Attorney911 Pursues Sigma Chi International, the Chapter That Rebranded From Sigma Chi to Alpha Nu and Continued Campus Operations After a Prior Hazing Suspension, the House Corporation and the Five Members Behind the Hazing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternal Carriers Invoke Hazing Exclusions to Deny Coverage, We Move to Preserve GroupMe and Snapchat Communications Before Auto-Deletion, Texas Hazing Law Makes Consent No Defense and the Survival Action Reaches the Pre-Death Psychological Anguish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Austin Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — When the Organization That Killed Your Son Tries to Outrun Its Own Name You are reading this at a kitchen table or in a bedroom that still belongs to your son. His clothes may still be where he left them. The grief is still raw, and mixed into it is something harder to name — the knowledge that the people who did this to him changed their organization’s name and kept right on operating on the same campus where he died. That fact — the rebranding, the evasion, the refusal to stop — is where this case begins for us, and it is where accountability begins for the people who hurt him. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has been licensed in Texas for 27-plus years and is admitted to federal court. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He walked the same campus your son walked. He knows the West Campus corridor where these fraternity houses sit, the culture that protects them, and the institutional inertia that lets them survive sanctions by changing a name. And our associate attorney, Lupe Peña, spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their lawyers decide how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours. He now sits on your side of that table, in English or in Spanish. We currently litigate a ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi at…

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Jul 3, 2026

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Southern University Band Member Caleb Wilson, 20, Was Repeatedly Punched in an Off-Campus Fraternity Pledge Ritual, Collapsed With a Seizure and Died — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization and the Commercial Property Owner Behind the Off-Campus Hazing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, We Secure the Surveillance Footage and Pledge-Process Communications Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act Imposes Penalties on Organizations for Hazing Deaths, the One-Year Wrongful-Death Filing Window Is Already 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

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What Happened to Caleb Wilson, and What the Law Lets a Family Do About It If your family is reading this, you already know the worst part. A 20-year-old Southern University student — a trumpet player in the university’s famed band, a young man with a life in front of him — went to a pledge ritual at a commercial flooring business in Baton Rouge and never came home. He was punched repeatedly as part of a hazing ceremony. He collapsed. He seized. And he died. What you may not know is how fast the legal window is closing. Louisiana gives families one year — one — to file a wrongful death claim after a death like this. That clock started the day Caleb Wilson died. It does not pause because you are grieving. It does not extend because the criminal investigation is still ongoing. And while it runs, the evidence that proves your case is dying on its own separate timer: surveillance footage overwriting itself in weeks, group chats disappearing with a single setting change, hospital video cycling out in 30 days. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Louisiana. And right now, we are in active litigation against a fraternity for hazing — a $10 million lawsuit in Harris County, Texas, that our managing partner Ralph Manginello filed and is fighting through discovery. That case is not this case. But it means we know…

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