Walker v. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity (Rho Chapter)

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• concluding that a national fraternity with no notice of hazing activities and no authority to control the day-to-day activities of a 9 local chapter had no duty to protect a member from hazing injuries despite the national organization’s general anti-hazing policy
• holding that national fraternity did not assume a duty to protect members from hazing where national fraternity had no knowledge of hazing activities at local chapter and local chapter purposely hid hazing activities from national fraternity
• “[T]he National Fraternity was not in a position to control the action of its chapters on a day-to-day basis [because it] is located in the District of Columbia, while the local chapter is located on Southern’s Campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).