Bethune-Cookman and Phi Mu Alpha Sued

Micah Kamrass, Manley Burke, mkamrass@manleyburke.com The mother of Marcus Thomas, a Bethune-Cookman University Student who died in a car crash last year, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school, the school's Greek Life Coordinator, the national fra­ternity, and...
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Bogenberger Complaint Amended to Add 16 Women as Defendants

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com The death of David Bogenberger from alcohol poisoning with a blood alcohol content level five times the legal limit in Illinois has already garnered substantial me­dia attention as a result of the arrest of 22...
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Updates on Chico State and UCF Campus-Wide Suspensions

Daniel McCarthy As reported in January (Chico State) and the March (UCF) issues of Fraternal Law, two public schools recently took the dramatic step of suspending near­ly all Greek activities on their respective campuses. Now that the Spring semester has...
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Kappa Alpha Order Prevails Against Break Away Group

Jim Ewbank In July 2001, most of the members of the Omicron Chapter of Kappa Alpha Order at the University of Texas (while under suspension and on involuntary alumni sta­tus) voted to break away from KAO National and form a...
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SAE Insurance Not Required to Contribute to Settlement

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Carson L. Starkey died on December 2, 2008, after participating in a "brown bag night," sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter at Cal Poly State University. He was a pledge. Starkey and other pledges...
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National Hazing Prevention Week is 365 Days Long

Michelle Terhune National Hazing Prevention Week (NHPW) will be observed September 23-27, 2013, but organizer HazingPre­vention.Org (HPO) hopes the issue is discussed 365 days a year. This year's theme for NHPW is "Know. Decide. Act. Only You Can Prevent Hazing,"...
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Editor's Note

Daniel McCarthy We are pleased to present this bonus issue of Fraternal Law for our subscribers. We will continue to publish the newsletter four times an academic year, but the move to electronic distribution now allows for greater flexibility. We...
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Smith v. Delta Tau Delta; Rules and Enforcement May Create Claims under Assumption of Duty and Agency Theories of Liability

Sean Callan, Manley Burke, sean.callan@manleyburke.com In the fall of 2008, Johnny Smith was a freshman at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Mr. Smith pledged the Beta Psi Chapter of Delta Tau Delta and began living in the Beta Psi Chapter...
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