New Orleans, Louisiana

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys: The $230M New Orleans Archdiocese Bankruptcy Settlement for 600+ Survivors of Decades of Concealed Clergy Abuse, Louisiana’s Revival Statute That Reopened Time-Barred Claims Upheld by the State Supreme Court, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the Archdiocese and the Institutional Structures That Shielded Known Abusers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Institution That Spent $50M in Legal Fees Fighting Survivors, We Secure the Clergy Personnel Files and Assignment Histories Before Protective Orders Seal Them, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: What $230 Million Means for Survivors in Louisiana If you are reading this, you may be one of the hundreds of survivors who voted — or one of the people who did not know a claim could still be filed. You may be the family member of someone who carried the weight for decades and never told a living soul. You may be watching a bankruptcy proceeding in a federal courthouse in New Orleans and wondering whether the number on the screen — $230 million — has anything to do with what was taken from you. It does. And it does not. Because the settlement is real, the vote was near-unanimous, and the confirmation hearing is coming. And because no dollar figure answers the question you actually carry: what happened to me was wrong, and does anyone with the power to say so out loud have the courage to say it? The near-unanimous vote — 489 clergy abuse claimants in favor, only two opposed, a 99.63% creditor approval — is the closest thing to institutional validation that the civil system produces. Hundreds of people who were abused as children by clergy in New Orleans looked…

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys — The New Orleans Archdiocese’s $305M Bankruptcy Settlement for 600 Survivors After Louisiana’s Revival Statute Broke the Church’s Prescription Defense, Among Them Linda Lee Stonebreaker, Molested at Age Four — Attorney911 Holds Religious Institutions and Their Insurers Behind Decades of Negligent Supervision, Reassignment of Known Abusers and Concealment, We Secure the Clergy Personnel Files and Assignment Records Before They Are Sealed in the Bankruptcy, Travelers Covered the Archdiocese 1973–1989 During the Peak Abuse Period, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the 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, Louisiana Imposes No Damages Cap on Sexual Abuse Claims, the Revival Window’s Status Determines Whether New Claims Can Still Be Filed — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: $305 Million for 600 Survivors — What It Means and What Comes Next You have been carrying this for a long time. Maybe decades. Maybe you were a child in a parish school in Orleans Parish, or an altar server at a church across the river in Jefferson, or a kid in a Catholic youth group in St. Tammany — and the person you were taught to trust most in the world used that trust to destroy part of you. You may have told no one. You may have tried to tell someone and been shut down. You may have spent years believing it was your fault, or that no one would believe you, or that the law had already closed the door because it happened too long ago. Then you read that roughly 600 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in New Orleans are in line to receive $305 million. That the archdiocese — the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States, founded in 1793, anchored by the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter that has stood through two centuries of Louisiana history — filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2020 because the weight…

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Cover-Up — Attorney911 Pursues the Archdiocese and Its 150 Affiliates for Decades of Predation Across New Orleans Churches and Schools, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Internal Abuse Files, Personnel Records and Assignment Histories That Prove Negligent Supervision and Fraudulent Concealment, Louisiana’s Childhood Sexual Abuse Revival Statute Reopened Courthouse Doors to Time-Barred Survivors and the Active Trafficking Investigation Opens TVPRA Civil Claims Against Non-Debtor Church Officials, Complex PTSD and Religious Trauma from Clergy Authority-Figure Abuse, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The New Orleans Archdiocese $230 Million Clergy Abuse Settlement: What Survivors and Families Need to Know If you are reading this page, you may be one of the roughly 600 survivors whose claims forced the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States into federal bankruptcy court — or you may be someone who was abused by clergy in Louisiana and is only now learning that the law changed in ways that might still give you a path forward. Either way, what happened in a New Orleans federal courtroom in December 2025 was not just a number on a page. It was the end of more than five years of litigation that an institution initially believed it could settle for less than $7 million — and that ultimately cost it $230 million, with another $75 million possibly coming from its insurer, plus more than $50 million in legal fees it spent fighting the very people it had failed to protect. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes cases in Louisiana, and we built this page because the settlement confirmation raises questions that general news coverage does not answer: How will the points system…

Tulane Freshman Haussman’s Hazing Injury: Struck Between the Eyes by a 24-Ounce Beer Can at a Phi Kappa Sigma Initiation in New Orleans, Severe Concussion and Loss of Consciousness With No Emergency Services Called, Fraternity President’s Cover-Up the Next Day — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and the University Under Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Felony Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Preserve the GroupMe Messages and Cover-Up Texts Before Auto-Delete Erases Them, Chronic Concussion TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Fraternity Hazing Injury Lawyer — When the Tradition Is a Crime and the Cover-Up Is the Proof If you are reading this at 2 a.m. with a headache that will not stop, or a parent sitting across from a child who came home from a fraternity event changed — quieter, angrier, forgetting words they used to know — you are in the right place. What happened to that student was not an accident, and it was not a tradition. Under Louisiana law, it was a crime. The fact that someone called the next morning to tell your child to lie about where it happened proves they knew exactly what they had done. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are trial attorneys who take catastrophic injury and hazing cases in Louisiana, and we are currently lead counsel in an active multi-million-dollar fraternity hazing lawsuit. The page you are reading is built to tell you the truth about what happened, what the law says about it, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what to do in the next 72 hours — because in Louisiana, the clock on your right to sue is shorter…

Lower 9th Ward Wrongful Death & Illegal Party House Shooting: Attorney911 Holds the Owners of 2031 St. Maurice Street for Operating an Unpermitted Event Space with a History of Violence—Kenneth Smith Jr., 15, Shot After Leaving the Property—Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Social Media Ads Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Fatal Cases—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Meet You in the Kitchen If you are reading this, you have already survived the thing no parent should have to survive. Your child walked out the door and did not come back. You are reading this because the loss is still in the room — every hour, every morning, every time you walk past the place his jacket used to hang — and because you are trying to answer a question that no parent should have to answer: how could this happen, and who is going to be held responsible. Your son was 15. He was new to New Orleans. The family had moved from Georgia only a few months before, and he was working over the summer, doing what 15-year-olds do when they are new in a city and somebody hands them an invitation. He went to a party at a house on St. Maurice Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward. The party was the kind of party the neighborhood already knew about — neighbors had been complaining about it for years. Two teenagers had already been killed in a mass shooting at the same address in 2022. The house had no permit to operate as an…