College Hazing Wrongful Death in Lewisburg, PA: Calvin Dickey Jr., 18-Year-Old Bucknell Freshman Lineman with Known Sickle-Cell Trait, Collapsed During 100+ Forced Ups and Downs and Died Two Days Later — Attorney911 Pursues the University and the Athletic Department Behind the Workout, the Institution’s Own NCAA Self-Reports Documenting Prior Conditioning Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Video, the Medical-Conditions Spreadsheet and the 911 Recordings Before Footage Overwrites and Witnesses Transfer, Pennsylvania’s Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Civil Remedy, the Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for Two Days of Conscious Suffering, No Damage Caps Against Private Universities, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Lewisburg Hazing Death Lawyer: When a University’s Negligence Kills a Student Athlete You sent your child to college to play a sport, and the sport killed him. That is the worst sentence a parent can read, and it is the one that starts every case like this. An 18-year-old freshman lineman arrived at Bucknell University in Lewisburg with a known medical condition — sickle-cell trait — that his coaches had been told about, that his strength coach had looked up on a spreadsheet the very morning of the workout, and that the NCAA has specific written protocols to protect. None of those protections mattered on July 10, 2024, because the man running the practice decided to make the players do approximately a hundred “ups and downs” — fall flat, stand up, repeat — until a young man who should never have been pushed that hard collapsed on the floor and never got up again. Two days later, Calvin Dickey Jr. was dead at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. The Montour County Coroner amended his death certificate to list the manner of death as homicide, with “forced exercise-induced sickle cell crisis” as a substantial factor. The Pennsylvania Attorney General filed criminal…