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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death of Pledge Colin Martinez: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Chapter, the University and the Premises Owner Behind Coerced Vodka Consumption That Killed an 18-Year-Old in Hazing-National, 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 Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Snapchat Messages, Surveillance Footage, Toxicology Reports and Fraternity Records on a 24-Hour Evidence Clock, the Stop Campus Hazing Act Now Requires Universities to Report Hazing Under the Clery Act, Arizona Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Social-Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Son Was the Victim of a Crime — Not a Participant in a Tradition If you are reading this at two in the morning, you are probably a parent. You sent your eighteen-year-old to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to describe. An indictment has been returned. A pledge master has been charged. And the question that brought you here is not whether what happened was wrong — you already know it was wrong. The question is whether the law gives you a way to hold every person and every institution that let this happen fully accountable, and whether that path is still open. It is. But the window is narrower than you think, and it is closing on two clocks you cannot see. Your son was an eighteen-year-old pledge at a fraternity that required him to consume lethal quantities of vodka as a condition of belonging. He became unable to stand. He became unable to speak. And sometime between that moment and the following morning, he died of alcohol poisoning — alone, in an off-campus residence in Flagstaff, while the people who put the bottle in his hands were still in the building. A Coconino County grand jury has indicted the chapter’s pledge master on a Class 4 felony hazing charge. Two additional fraternity members have been arrested. The national fraternity has closed the chapter. The university has commissioned an independent investigation. That is the criminal system…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of NAU Freshman Colin Martinez in Flagstaff: 0.425 BAC After Pledges Were Blindfolded and Forced to Drink 3.5 Liters of Vodka, Left Unresponsive While Fraternity Members Googled Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms at 3 AM and Waited Hours to Call 911 — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization Behind the Delta Tau Delta Chapter, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Insurer Values and Denies These Claims, We Preserve Pledge Statements, Cell Phone Records and National Risk-Management Files Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Arizona Law Says Hazing Cannot Be Consented To and Arizona’s Constitution Forbids Damage Caps in Wrongful 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

Flagstaff Fraternity Hazing Death: What Arizona Law Lets a Family Do When a Student Is Killed Your son was 18 years old. He walked into a house near the Northern Arizona University campus for what was supposed to be the beginning of something — a fraternity, a brotherhood, a college life — and he never walked out. The autopsy said his blood-alcohol level was 0.425. That number is not a percentage of impairment. It is a lethal dose of ethanol, the kind that stops the brain from telling the lungs to breathe. And the people who were with him — the ones who put the vodka in his hands and the pillowcase over his head — searched Google for “alcohol poisoning symptoms” at 3 o’clock in the morning and still did not call 911 for hours. We are writing this page for you. Not for the news cycle, not for search traffic, and not for anyone who does not understand what it means to bury an 18-year-old who left for college and came home in a box. We are writing it because Arizona law gives your family tools the criminal indictment does not — civil tools that reach every person and every entity that caused this, not just the one who was indicted, and tools that can force the kind of systemic change that keeps the next family from sitting where you are sitting right now. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that…

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Jul 22, 2026

Mead School District Hazing & Racial Discrimination Lawsuit in Cheney, Washington: Spokane County Judge Finds District Liable After Football Camp Massage-Gun Assaults on Black Student-Athletes — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Hazing Case, We Pursue the District and the Officials Who Buried the Racial Targeting Findings, We Preserve the Unredacted Report, Cellphone Videos and HIB Records Before June Trial, Title VI and Washington Anti-Hazing Law, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Cheney School Hazing Lawsuit: What the Mead School District Liability Ruling Means for Families Your son went to football camp at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. He came home changed. Maybe he told you what happened. Maybe you found out from a video circulating through the community — other players holding your child down, assaulting him with a massage gun while someone filmed it on a phone. Maybe you learned that racial slurs followed him for months after. And when you asked the school district for answers, the superintendent stood before the community and said the investigation found no racial motivation — even though the district’s own compliance officer had documented a concerning and persistent pattern of racist comments and discriminatory harassment, and even though that finding was deleted from the final report before the public ever saw it. You are not crazy. A Spokane County Superior Court judge has now confirmed, twice, what your family experienced. The court found Mead School District liable for racial discrimination — first in March 2026, in a case involving a white player who was assaulted after trying to protect Black teammates, and again on May 13, 2026, in a ruling that found the district liable for racial discrimination against the Black student-athletes who were targeted. Two of the four Black students have already settled their cases. The remaining cases are heading to trial in June 2026. A separate federal lawsuit seeking $50 million also names Eastern Washington University. We are writing this page…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Monroe County, Pennsylvania: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Local Chapter and Rental Property Owner Behind the Glass Ceiling Ritual That Killed Baruch Freshman Michael Deng — Blindfolded, Loaded With a 30-Pound Backpack, Tackled and Kicked in the Head, Then Left Motionless for Over an Hour While Members Hid Fraternity Paraphernalia Before Driving 45 Minutes to the Nearest Hospital, the Forensic Finding That Delayed Treatment Significantly Contributed to His Death, We Pull the Cell Records and Fraternity Communications on a 12-to-18-Month Retention Cycle and the Autopsy Report Before Evidence Is Lost, Pennsylvania’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act With Its 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Death That Did Not Have to Happen: Michael Deng and the Fraternity Cover-Up That Made a Survivable Injury Fatal If you are reading this page, you already know something no parent should ever have to learn. A young person you love went away to college, joined an organization that promised brotherhood, and came home in a way no family should ever have to receive them — or did not come home at all. You are sitting with a grief that has a shape and a name, and you are trying to understand whether what happened was an accident or a choice, because that distinction is the difference between a tragedy you endure and a wrong someone answers for. We want you to know one thing before anything else: the forensic evidence in the Michael Deng case confirmed that timely medical care would have saved his life. A forensic pathologist determined that the one-to-two-hour delay in treatment significantly contributed to his death. That means this death was not inevitable. It was caused by specific decisions specific people made — the decision to blindfold an 18-year-old and send him through a gauntlet wearing a 30-pound backpack, the decision to keep going after he was kicked in the head and could not stand, and the decision to call the national fraternity president and hide evidence instead of calling 911. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle fraternity and sorority hazing wrongful death cases, and we currently lead the active…

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Jul 22, 2026

Catholic School Football Hazing & Sexual Assault Lawsuit in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio: Attorney911 Holds Dioceses and School Administrations Accountable When a Four-Year Hazing Culture of Stomping, Choking and Sexual Assault Goes Unchecked on Multi-State Team Trips, 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 Move to Preserve Snapchat Videos, Phone Forensics and Hotel Surveillance Before the Evidence Window Closes, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Liability and Mandatory-Reporter Doctrine, Alleged Evidence Destruction Amplifies Punitive-Damages Exposure, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown Hazing Lawsuit: When the School Knew — and What Ohio Law Says About It If your child was hazed on a football team trip — if you are reading this at 2 a.m. because the complaint that just landed in federal court describes things done to a child that no child should survive — you are in the right place. Not because we have easy answers, but because we know the answers that exist in the law, and we know them cold. What happened in Youngstown, what the amended 290-page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio alleges, and what the law of Ohio says a school must do when it learns children are being hurt under its watch — that is what this page is built to tell you, plainly, completely, and without a single sentence of salesmanship. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle hazing, sexual assault, and institutional negligence cases. We are not the counsel on this case. What follows is what we know as trial lawyers who litigate these cases — the law, the evidence, the medicine, the money, and the playbook the other side is already running — so that you, the parent or the survivor reading this, understand exactly what the road looks like before you take the first step. That first step, if you take it, is free: 1-888-ATTY-911. We answer 24 hours a day. Can a School Be Held Liable for…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Brain Injury Attorneys: Daniel Santulli, 19, Left Unresponsive After a Phi Gamma Delta Pledge Father Reveal Party in Columbia, Missouri — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter, the Advisory Board and the House Supervisor Behind Organized Alcohol Provision to Minors, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Social Media, Group Chats and Risk-Management Files Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute Sets the Standard of Care and Pledge Coercion Nullifies Voluntary-Participation Defenses Under Pure Comparative Fault, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing Injuries: Your Legal Rights and Path to Compensation The phone call comes at night. Your son is at a hospital. Or worse — he is at a rehabilitation facility in another state, and the word the doctor uses is “unresponsive.” You learn there was a fraternity party. You learn there was alcohol — not college-kids-drinking alcohol, but organized, ritualized, dangerous quantities of alcohol pressed on a young person who wanted nothing more than to belong. And now your child is never coming home the way he left. We are Attorney911. We handle fraternity hazing cases. What happened at the Phi Gamma Delta house at the University of Missouri in October 2021 — a 19-year-old student catastrophically brain-injured by alcohol poisoning during a “Pledge Father Reveal” party, left permanently unresponsive, his family facing more than $1.8 million in medical bills and a lifetime of around-the-clock care — is not an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. And the law in Missouri gives families more power than most people realize to hold every person and every institution that enabled it accountable. We write this page as the senior trial attorneys who know this fight — not as the lawyers on this specific case, but as the lawyers who have sat with families in this exact moment and know what to do next. If your child has been injured in a fraternity hazing incident — whether at the University of Missouri, any college in this state, or anywhere in…

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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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