DAYTONA BEACH, Florida -- FAMU wants an appeals court to reverse a judge's decision allowing a civil case filed in the deadly hazing of drum major Robert Champion to continue.The Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach has agreed to review last month's ruling by Circuit Judge Walter Komanski, who refused to throw out a lawsuit filed by the drum major's parents against Florida A&M University.
FAMU lawyers say the school should be immune from the parents' lawsuit because Champion voluntarily participated in the hazing, an illegal assembly under state law. Pamela and Robert Champion say the school allowed a deep-seated culture of hazing to fester within the band, and that led to their son's death.
Champion, 26, died Nov. 19, 2011, from blows he absorbed during a hazing on a bus parked at ...
PDF: FAMU petition for writ of certiorari
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