Premises Liability

Jun 22, 2026

Attempted Hotel Sexual Assault in Gonzales, Texas: Attorney911 Holds Holiday Inn Express & IHG Accountable for Front-Desk Staff Issuing Key Cards to Predators — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles Negligent-Security Cases, We Preserve the Electronic Door-Lock Audit Trail and CCTV Footage Before the Overwrite, Psychological Trauma and the $44M Houston Verdict Signal What These Cases Are Worth, Texas Premises-Liability Law Protects Guests from Foreseeable Criminal Acts — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Phone Call That Starts Everything It is after midnight when the call comes in. Maybe it is later than that — maybe the survivor has been sitting with the phone in her hand for hours, replaying the moment she woke up to a man crouched at the foot of her bed with his pants undone and a condom out. The man said he knew her. The front desk gave him a key. She screamed, he ran, and the police later found him and charged him with attempted sexual assault. She is calling us because the man who did this is the criminal case, but the business that handed him the key is the civil case — and that is the case Attorney911 was built to fight. This page is for her. It is also for any woman — and the men and children who suffer this same betrayal — who checked into a hotel thinking the room was a sanctuary, and woke up in a crime scene the hotel itself made possible. If you or someone you love was sexually assaulted because a hotel in Gonzales County gave a key to the wrong person, this page explains what the…

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Jun 22, 2026

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit After Unverified Hotel Key Grants Rapist Access to Cheri Marchionda’s Room at Des Moines Embassy Suites — Attorney911 Holds Atrium Hospitality & John Q. Hammons Management Liable for Failing Industry-Standard Identity Checks, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Sexual Assault Cases, We Preserve Front-Desk Keycard Logs & Security Footage Before the Overwrite Loop, PTSD & Long-Term Disability ($5M+ Recovered in Catastrophic Injury Cases), Iowa’s Premises Liability Duty to Protect Guests from Foreseeable Criminal Acts — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hotel Handed Him the Key You came to Des Moines for work. A city you had traveled to before, on a trip you had made dozens of times. You checked in at the Embassy Suites, used the deadbolt the way you always do, and went to sleep. Then a hand on your leg. Then a voice telling you not to scream. Then hours you survived by going somewhere else inside your mind. If this is where you are, I want you to hear something before anything else: this was not your fault. What happened to you is the predictable consequence of a system that failed. A front desk that handed a room key to a man who had no business being given one. A maintenance worker who disabled the one lock that could have stopped him. A hotel that had been warned, and looked the other way. We are here to make that system answer for what it did. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We represent people who were sexually assaulted in hotels, motels, and other commercial lodging in Iowa and across the country. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including…

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Jun 22, 2026

Des Moines Hotel Sexual Assault & Premises Liability Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Embassy Suites Operators & Corporate Owners Accountable After Staff Handed Attacker a Room Key Without Verification—Cheri Marchionda’s PTSD & Lost Executive Career, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage & Key-Card Logs Before the Overwrite, Iowa’s Duty of Care for Guest Safety, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Front Desk Hands a Stranger the Key to Your Room: How Iowa Hotel Negligent Security Law Works The phone rings at 2 a.m. The person on the other end is telling you they were raped inside the very room the hotel rented them. The lock on the door did not hold. The man who climbed into the bed had a key the front desk gave him. The hotel’s own maintenance worker had disabled the safety latch the night before. You are not imagining what went wrong here. You are describing every single failure negligent security law was built to address. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we represent survivors of sexual assault and violent crime in Iowa and across the country. We built this page for the woman who is reading this at 2 a.m., for the family member who flew in after the call from the hospital, and for every survivor who has been told that what happened was “just bad luck” and that the hotel had no duty. That is not the law. The law in Iowa, and the law of premises liability nationwide, has protected people like you for a…

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Jun 22, 2026

Fort Worth Hotel Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Fairfield Inn & Suites Master Key Negligence — Attorney911 Holds Marriott International and MCR Hotels Accountable for Front Desk Employee’s Gross Violation of Industry Security Protocols, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Sexual Assault Cases, We Secure the Lock Audit and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Severe Psychological Trauma and Ongoing Distress for Victims J.E. and L.T., the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Person Who Let Him In Worked Behind the Front Desk You checked into a hotel in downtown Fort Worth for a few nights of work. A stranger knocked on the door, said he was the husband of one of you. A few hours later, that same stranger was inside the room because an employee of the hotel used a master key to open the door for him. What happened next is something no survivor should have to relive, and what happens next in court is something we can control. The case filed in October 2024 against the operators of that hotel — MCR Investors, MCR Hotels, the entity that runs the building, and the property-management arm — is not a mystery of “how did he get in.” Surveillance video answers that. The mystery is a simpler and uglier one: a hospitality employee used the master key entrusted to the front desk to admit a stranger into a guest’s room in the middle of the night, and the company that wrote the policies and trained (or did not train) the employee is now being asked to answer for the result. We represent survivors of sexual assault and the families who…

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Jun 22, 2026

Stanford Ph.D. Candidate Raped in San Mateo County Marriott Hotel Room — Attorney911 Holds Negligent Hospitality Chains Accountable for Failing to Protect Guests from Foreseeable Sexual Violence, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trauma, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Key-Card Logs Before the 30-Day Overwrite, California’s Extended Statute of Limitations for Sexual Assault Survivors, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Violent Crime — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Doctor Was Convicted of Raping Her at a Marriott. The Criminal Case Closed. The Civil Case Is Just Beginning. The headline you read — six years in prison for a hotel rape — is about the criminal case, and the criminal case alone. It tells you what the State of California proved at trial. It does not, and could not, tell you what the survivor is still owed. A criminal conviction punishes the state’s interest in law enforcement. A civil suit compensates her — the lost research, the years of therapy, the night she cannot walk past a hotel lobby without her chest tightening, the job offer she turned down because she could not leave the apartment. The two systems run in parallel. The criminal case is over. The civil case is the one where her name is on the verdict, and California law gives her years to bring it. This page is the full civil-justice map for a survivor of sexual assault by a guest at a San Mateo County hotel — what claims she can bring, against whom, what the evidence is, what it’s worth, and how a firm like ours builds the case that does what…

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Jun 22, 2026

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuits Across 40 States — Attorney911 Holds the National Hotel Chain Accountable for Ignoring Obvious Signs of Forced Commercial Sex Work, Child Trafficking, and Drug-Facilitated Assault in 118 Properties, Including Smyrna/Atlanta, Hilliard/Columbus, and Springfield: Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Survivors, We Preserve Hotel Registries, Surveillance Footage, and Police Call Logs Before They Are Destroyed, TVPRA Violations and Premises Liability Claims for 1,000+ Victims, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Human-Trafficking Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hotel Said It Didn’t Know. Federal Law Says That’s Not the End of the Conversation. If you are reading this page, someone you love — or you yourself — was bought and sold for sex in a hotel room. Maybe it was a Red Roof Inn off an interstate in Ohio. Maybe it was a budget motel in Florida, a roadside inn in Texas, or a place in California where the hallways smelled like smoke and the front desk looked the other way. The trafficker has been caught, or the trafficker is still out there, or the trafficker was never really caught at all. What you have now is a different kind of problem: figuring out whether the building where this happened — the company that rented the room night after night, that trained its staff to spot the warning signs, that took the money — can be held responsible. That answer is yes, and the law that gives it to you is a federal statute most people have never heard of. It is called the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and the civil-remedy provision inside it — 18 U.S.C. § 1595 — gives a trafficking survivor the right…

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Jun 22, 2026

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Atlanta Victims Fight for Justice Under Federal TVPA—Attorney911 Holds the Budget Hotel Chain Accountable for Knowingly Profiting from Trafficking, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Hotel Room Logs, Security Footage, and Internal Emails Before They’re Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Atlanta Sex Trafficking Lawyer: Holding Hotels Accountable Under Federal Law When Atlanta Became a Trafficking Corridor You checked in expecting a room for the night. Or you were moved from city to city by someone who told you no one else could help you. Or you are the parent who got a call from Atlanta you cannot stop replaying. The room where it happened may have been a budget motel off I-285 near College Park, a roadside Days Inn near Hartsfield-Jackson, a weekly-rate WoodSpring Suites in Forest Park, a Red Roof near the airport, or an extended-stay on Memorial Drive in unincorporated DeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city line. The men who used that room paid the hotel. The hotel gave them a key. That transaction - and the hotel’s choice to keep giving a key after the signs were obvious - is what federal law was written to punish. This page is written for the survivor, and for the family member or advocate sitting beside them. It explains, in plain language, the federal civil remedy that lets a trafficking survivor sue the hotel - and, in many cases, the brand on the sign - for knowingly profiting from…

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Jun 22, 2026

11 Survivors of Sex Trafficking at Atlanta Red Roof Inn Locations Reach Midtrial Settlement — Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporate Owners Accountable Under TVPRA and Georgia Premises Liability Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Room Folios, Staff Logs and Prior Police Calls Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hotel Profits From Trafficking: The Red Roof Atlanta Case and Your Rights Under Georgia Law You are reading this for one of two reasons. Either you are a survivor who is finally putting words to what happened to you in an Atlanta hotel room — years of it, maybe, when every instinct told you something was wrong but no one with power looked at you long enough to see it. Or you are a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend who started asking questions and could not stop, because the answers did not line up with the story the hotel kept telling. If that is you, take a breath. What happened to you was not bad luck, not a “lifestyle,” not something you caused. Under federal and Georgia law, the place that rented the room to the man who hurt you may have a duty to you that runs deeper than the franchisor’s standard “we screen our drivers” boilerplate. And there is a new precedent you need to understand: in the summer of 2024, eleven women who were trafficked at two Red Roof Inn locations in Atlanta settled their civil case against the hotel’s corporate owners in…

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Jun 22, 2026

Philadelphia Sex Trafficking of Minors at Days Inn Motel — Attorney911 Holds Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Motel Owners Liable Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, We Secure Guest Folios, Security Footage, and Incident Logs Before They Are Destroyed, $24 Million Settlement for Eight Survivors — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Days Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard and the $24 Million Trafficking Settlement: What Philadelphia Survivors Need to Know If you are reading this at 2 a.m., we want you to know one thing first: what happened to you is not your fault, and the law has changed in ways that may matter for you even years later. The case at the Days Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard — where eight women, four of them children when it began, were trafficked over a span of years in rooms rented for days and weeks at a time — produced one of the largest civil trafficking settlements in Pennsylvania history. The motel agreed to pay $24 million. The traffickers and a security guard who took bribes to look the other way went to federal prison. That outcome is not a fluke. It is the result of a federal civil rights statute that exists for exactly this purpose, applied to a corporate defendant that had the resources to pay and the culpability to owe. We represent people who have been trafficked, and people who have been hurt by businesses that profited from their exploitation. This page explains, in plain language, what the Philadelphia case teaches, what…

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Jun 22, 2026

Child Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against Motel 6, Wyndham & Red Roof Inn Chains—Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporations Liable for Nearly 1,000 Rapes of 13-Year-Old Jane AB Doe Across Los Angeles, Gardena, Dallas, Austin & Houston Properties, Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How Chains Profit from Trafficking, We Preserve Guest Folios & Staff Logs Before They’re Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Catastrophic Abuse—No Fee Unless We Win, Free 24/7 Consultation, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Are Reading This Page Right Now, You Are Not Alone You are probably not scrolling this at a coffee shop between meetings. You are reading it at night, alone, with a door closed, on a phone or a laptop, after hours of trying to talk yourself out of picking it up. You may have just seen a news story about a young woman — identified in court papers only as Jane AB Doe — who alleges she was held and trafficked at hotels including a Motel 6 just south of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, another Motel 6 in Gardena, a Studio 6 in Dallas, and a Red Roof Inn in Houston, among others, while she was a child. You may be that young woman. You may be the mother, the sister, the aunt, the social worker, or the friend who has been carrying this for someone else. You may be a survivor of something similar at a different hotel, in a different city, years ago, who has never told anyone in writing. Whoever you are and however you got here: this page is for you. Read what helps. Skip what doesn’t. And when you are ready, call…

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