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Jul 22, 2026

Final two criminal defendants in Timothy Piazza hazing case sentenced in Centre County Court – fox43.com

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: What the Piazza Sentencing Means for Civil Liability The criminal sentencing of the final two defendants in the Timothy Piazza hazing case closes one chapter. It opens another. If your family lost a son or daughter to a fraternity hazing event — whether at Penn State or anywhere else in this country — the criminal system did its job, and it was never going to do the whole job. Criminal court puts people in prison. Civil court makes the institutions that profited from the culture that killed your child pay for what they built. Those are two different fights, and the second one is the one that forces change. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — and now sits on your side of…

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Jul 22, 2026

Timothy Piazza Fraternity Hazing Death at Penn State: Attorney911 Litigates Hazing Wrongful Death in Centre County, Pennsylvania — We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization Behind the Alcohol-Fueled Pledge Initiation and the Stairway Fall, the Local Chapter That Delayed 911 While a Survivable Head Injury Became Fatal, the University’s Greek-Life Oversight Failures and Sovereign-Immunity Defenses of a State-Related Institution, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Cell-Phone Records and Toxicology Reports Before They Are Lost and the Statute of Limitations Runs, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Statutes With No Caps on Damages, the Timothy Piazza Anti-Hazing Law, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Centre County, Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Death: What the Beta Theta Pi Sentencing Exposes About Civil Liability When a Pledge Dies You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a fraternity event. Maybe it was a fall down stairs. Maybe it was alcohol apledge was pressured to drink until he could not stand. Maybe it was the hours that passed while people who could have called 911 did not. What happened at the Beta Theta Pi house at Penn State in 2017 — and what played out in a Centre County courtroom seven years later — is not an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. And the law has more to say about it than the criminal sentencing captured in a headline. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, including fraternity and sorority hazing deaths, anywhere the harm occurred. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus 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 people exactly like the reader — and now sits…

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Jul 22, 2026

WSU Freshman Sam Martinez Died of Alcohol Poisoning at an Alpha Tau Omega Hazing Ritual in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington — Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the National Fraternity and the University That Knew of 70 Prior Interventions at the Chapter House and Did Nothing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ 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 the Student-Conduct Records, Police Call Logs and Fraternity Communications Before They Are Purged, Washington’s Wrongful-Death Act and Anti-Hazing Statute With No Caps on Non-Economic Damages, 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 70 Interventions They Knew About: Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Pullman If you are reading this page, you may be standing where Jolayne Houtz and Hector Martinez stood after losing their 19-year-old son Sam — a Washington State University freshman who died from alcohol poisoning at an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity hazing event in 2019. You may be a parent who searched for safety information about a fraternity and found nothing, the way Sam’s mother searched and found nothing. You may be learning, only after the worst has already happened, that the danger was documented — that authorities had intervened at that same chapter house nearly 70 times in the six years before your child died, and that the university and the national fraternity knew it at their highest leadership levels and did nothing effective to stop it. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes Washington wrongful-death and fraternity-hazing cases, working with local counsel and pro hac vice admission where required. We currently litigate a \$10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity — so the machinery of these cases, the defendant structures, the insurance towers, and the institutional excuses are not abstract…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Catastrophic Brain Injury Attorneys: Danny Santulli Was Forced to Drink Until Hypoxic Brain Injury Left Him Blind, Unable to Walk or Speak After Phi Gamma Delta’s Pledge Father Reveal Night in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization, the Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind Forced Intoxication and the Decision to Withhold 911 Rather Than Risk Repercussions, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Liability Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Preserve the BAC and Toxicology Records, Neuroimaging, Surveillance Footage and Member Group Chats Before They Are Lost, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims, Missouri’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Anti-Hazing Statute Govern Your Civil Claim, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia Fraternity Hazing Injuries: Legal Rights After Catastrophic Harm If you are reading this page, your family has already lived through the worst night of your lives. A child left for the University of Missouri, joined a fraternity, and came home with a catastrophic brain injury — or did not come home at all. The phone call from Columbia came at an hour no parent should have to answer. The doctors used words like “hypoxic” and “permanent.” The fraternity has already called its insurance company. The university has already issued a statement. And you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand how a young person who left for Mizzou six weeks ago came back unable to see, walk, or speak. We are Attorney911. We handle fraternity and sorority hazing cases, and we are currently litigating a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity at a major university. We know what these cases look like from the inside — the evidence that is already disappearing, the insurance tower that sits behind the local chapter, the playbook the defense runs to minimize what happened. This page is the education we wish every family had before the…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Caleb Wilson, a 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior and Human Jukebox Trumpet Player, Died of Commotio Cordis From Repeated Chest Blows at a Baton Rouge Warehouse Pledging Ritual, and the Delayed 911 Call and False Information to Hospital Staff May Have Cost Him His Only Chance of Survival — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the University, and Every Individual Behind the Ritual, We Move to Preserve Warehouse Surveillance, Pledge Communications and Hospital Intake Records Before the Evidence Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act Makes Consent No Defense to Hazing Harm, 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 the Law Says About the Southern University Omega Psi Phi Wrongful Death Lawsuit If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, you need to hear three things before anything else. First: what happened was not an accident. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner ruled this death a homicide — a medical and legal determination that a human act, not misfortune, stopped a 20-year-old’s heart. Second: Louisiana law strips away the oldest excuse in the hazing playbook. Under the Max Gruver Act, the fact that a pledge chose to be there is not a defense — consent does not shield the people who struck him, the organization that sanctioned the ritual, or the university that failed to stop it. Third: the minutes that passed between his collapse and the moment anyone called for real medical help may have been the difference between a funeral and a recovery, and that delay is its own separate claim. We are writing this as the senior trial team at Attorney911 — a firm that currently litigates a ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a fraternity at a major university,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of Southern University Student Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Commotio Cordis from Repeated Chest Punching at an Off-Campus Warehouse, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and the University Behind a Known and Pervasive Hazing Risk, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Warehouse Footage, Fraternity Oversight Records and University Hazing Complaint Files Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period 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 the Autopsy Means and What Your Family Can Do The coroner’s report came back on a Monday. Seven months after a young man from Kenner stopped breathing at an off-campus warehouse in Baton Rouge, the East Baton Rouge Coroner put two words on paper that change everything: homicide and commotio cordis. Those words are not a medical curiosity. They are the foundation of a wrongful death case, and they eliminate every defense the other side was building while your family was burying your son. If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in a fraternity hazing ritual, or because you are a parent watching a child pledge and you are terrified, we are writing this for you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take hazing wrongful death cases. We are currently litigating a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a fraternity in Harris County, Texas. We know this fight because we are in it right now. And we know what the coroner’s words mean for a family in Baton Rouge who just received the single most important piece of evidence they will ever hold. Wilson’s manner of…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Austin, Travis County, Texas: Sawyer Lee Updike, 18, a UT Austin freshman who died by suicide after months of alleged hazing at Sigma Chi’s Alpha Nu chapter — Attorney911 brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ years of federal-court trial practice, Avvo-rated Excellent, and lead-counsel authority in the active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi hazing lawsuit, we pursue the national fraternity, the local chapter and the individual members behind forced cocaine and psilocybin, fishhook spearing, staple-gun piercing, cigarette burns, physical whipping and sleep deprivation, Lupe Peña the former insurance-defense insider who knows how the claims machine values and denies these cases, we move to preserve the hazing recordings, fraternity house surveillance and toxicology findings before phones are wiped and DVR systems overwrite, Texas anti-hazing law makes consent no defense and gross negligence opens exemplary damages under the 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

Austin Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: What the Sigma Chi Lawsuit Means for Texas Families You are reading this at a time no family should ever have to face. Maybe your son is gone. Maybe he is still alive but you just learned what was done to him behind the doors of a fraternity house on West Campus, and you are sitting at your kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand how something this cruel could happen to an eighteen-year-old who just wanted to belong. Maybe you are a parent who sensed something was wrong months ago and could not get anyone to listen. Whatever brought you here, we want you to know one thing before anything else: what happened is not your son’s fault, and it is not your fault. The law in Texas recognizes that. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who take wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, including fraternity hazing cases. Our Austin office sits at 316 West 12th Street, minutes from the Travis County courthouse where a case like this would be filed. We have an active hazing lawsuit right now — a $10 million case…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Fraternity Hazing Death in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana — Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Omega Psi Phi and Its Chartered Beta Sigma Chapter Behind the Pledge Ritual Where Repeated Chest Blows Collapsed a 20-Year-Old Southern University Marching-Band Member, the Cover-Up That Changed His Clothes and Delayed Emergency Care, Amplifying Survival Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Phone Downloads, Surveillance Footage and Fraternity Risk-Management Records Before They Vanish, Louisiana’s Felony Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act with the Prescriptive Clock 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

When a Fraternity’s Ritual Becomes a Death Sentence: What the Baton Rouge Indictments Mean for Families Your phone rang at an hour when no one calls with good news. A voice told you your child collapsed at a fraternity event. By the time you reached the hospital, he was gone. And the story you were first told about how it happened did not match the story the police would later tell. That gap — between what they said happened and what actually happened — is where the cover-up begins, and it is where a wrongful death case is built. We are writing this for you. Not for the curious. Not for the search engine. For the parent, the sibling, the guardian who is sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a folder of bills that just became unpayable, a phone full of condolences that do not answer a single real question, and a grief that has not yet found its shape because the facts are still moving. You are in Baton Rouge, or you are in a town like it, and a fraternity took someone you raised, someone you loved, and turned a pledge process into something that…

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Jul 22, 2026

ASU SAE Hazing Lawsuit in Tempe: Waterboarding, 10.5 Liters of Forced Vodka & a Pledge Left Motionless — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity and the Local Chapter Behind Negligent Supervision That Ignored Its Own Four-Day Pledging Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve GLV Security Footage, Group Chats and Medical Records Before They Disappear, Arizona’s Jack’s Law Criminalizes Hazing and Opens Civil Remedies, Arizona’s Constitution Prohibits Damage Caps and Punitive Damages Are Available for Aggravated Misconduct, 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 to You Was Not Your Fault — and Arizona Law Says So If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because you or someone you love was a pledge at Arizona State University’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, you already know what happened. You do not need us to describe it back to you. You lived it. What you may not know is that the State of Arizona wrote a law specifically to tell you that what happened was a crime — not a tradition, not a rite of passage, not something you agreed to. A crime. And that law bears the name of a young man who did not survive his own encounter with this same fraternity at this same university. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Arizona cases, working with local counsel where required, and we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity in Texas. We know this fight because we are in it right now, in a different courtroom, against a different fraternity, for a different family. The machinery of accountability is the same. The playbook the defense…

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Jul 22, 2026

Wilberforce University Hazing Death of Savanna Jones: Forced to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room While Resident Assistants Watched and Did Nothing — Attorney911 Holds the University and Its Housing Officials Accountable Under Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Law, We Preserve the Dorm Surveillance Footage, the Circulated Photo of an Unconscious 18-Year-Old, and Every Participant’s Text Messages Before They Are Deleted, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ohio’s Comparative-Fault Rule Does Not Shield Those Who Watched a Dying Student and Failed to Call 911 — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at Wilberforce University: A Freshman’s Death and the Law That Was Built to Answer It If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. An 18-year-old who should be finishing her first year of college is not coming home. And the reason she is not coming home is not an accident, not a random tragedy, and not something nobody could have foreseen. It was a ritual. It was organized. It happened inside a university dormitory. And people who were paid to keep students safe watched it happen and did nothing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Ohio hazing and wrongful-death cases, and we are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in the middle of the night, reading everything they can find, trying to understand what happened at Wilberforce University and what they can do about it. If that is you, here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened to your family was not her fault. She was 18 years old. She texted a friend that she was scared before the ritual began. The law…

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