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Topic: RSS FeedKappa Alpha Psi fraternity settles wrongful-death lawsuit
Jet, Feb 17, 1997
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and members of its chapter at Southeast Missouri (Cape Girardeau) State University recently settled a wrongful-death lawsuit for $2.25 million.
Several members of the fraternity also were convicted of hazing, a misdemeanor at the time. This incident prompted the Missouri General Assembly to pass a law making it a felony.
Family members of Michael Davis, who was a 25-year old pledge at the school, filed the suit against the fraternity. Davis died of injuries from a hazing incident in 1994, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
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Court documents said Davis and two other pledges were repeatedly slapped, hit, and bodyslammed. Davis lost consciousness and later died of a brain injury. An autopsy showed that he had broken ribs, a lacerated kidney and liver and bruises over his upper body, the paper said.
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