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Suit Filed in California Hazing Death

Settlement Reached for victim of hazing at Rider University

Crime on the Rise at Area Colleges

Why Hazing Cases Don't Go Away

Students Sued over Fatal Rite

Attorney Douglas Fierberg talks with Assistant Attorney General William Mimms

From USA Today:

Attorney Douglas Fierberg, left, talks with Assistant Attorney General William Mimms, right, during a news conference concerning the Virginia Tech settlement in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Fierberg represented many of the Virginia Tech victim families.

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Judge Agrees to Va. Tech Payout

From the Washington Post

A Circuit Court judge approved an $11 million settlement Tuesday for most of the families of victims of last year's Virginia Tech massacre, but some of them remain dissatisfied and angry over the actions of the state and the school.

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Bad Jocks or Bad Coach?

From ABC News

Washington-based trial lawyer Douglas Fierberg said he agreed that schools need to start educating students on hazing, because he's seen what kind of tragedies can result.

Fierberg said badjocks.com finally lets people actually see what has been happening for a long time. Fierberg has represented seven families throughout the United States who have lost their children to hazing. "Deaths don't even tell the whole story. There are a lot of women out there who wake up the next morning with a fragmented understanding of what happened to them the night before."

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Alcohol-saturated 'fun' on campus can be lethal

From USA Today

As students head to the nation's college campuses, relishing their new independence, criminal prosecutions in the deaths of two young men are a sober reminder of how quickly alcohol-fueled "fun" can spin out of control.

Charges were filed this month against students and administrators linked to the recent fire death of a 19-year-old sophomore at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and the alcohol poisoning of a 18-year-old freshman at Rider University in Trenton, N.J.

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Previous news

Fraternities' Role in College Drinking
© USA Today

Va. Tech Victims' Families Weigh Suits Against State
© Washington Post

Spring Ushers in a Bloody Hazing Season for Black Frats
© Cox, Matthews & Associates, Gale Group

Bode & Grenier Retained by Va. Tech Families
© Legal Times

The Charging of Administrators is Unprecedented
© Times of Trenton

Fraternity Lawsuits Becoming More Common
© Lawyers Weekly USA

Video Voyeurism Case Nets $300,000 Verdict
© Lawyers Weekly USA

DC Liable on Sexual Assault Claim
© Metro Verdicts Monthly

Too Cruel for School
© People Magazine

Violent Cast
© The New York Times

A Rite Gone Terribly Wrong
© Sports Illustrated

 
 

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