![]() ![]() “These former Northwestern football players are participating in this legal action because they want to support and validate the allegations of abuse made by the two players who spoke to the Daily Northwestern about the true nature of the so-called hazing,” Levin said in the joint statement. ![]() In a statement, Crump said “the legal action is expected to expand beyond Northwestern’s football program.” He and Levin are also representing a former football player who was 17 at the time the hazing occurred. ![]() That number rose to 12 former student-athletes on Tuesday. Meanwhile, on Monday, high-profile civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Chicago personal injury lawyer Steven Levin, of Levin & Perconti, announced they were partnering to take the cases of at least eight former student-athletes seeking damages for sexual, physical and emotional abuse sustained through hazing at Northwestern. Both are named in a hazing-relate lawsuit brought by a former NU football player. New Northwestern President Michael Schill, right, at his inauguration on June 2 alongside his predecessor, Morton Schapiro. Those leaders, along with Fitzgerald, “knew or should have known” about ongoing hazing within the Northwestern football locker room and “failed to prevent” or intervene in those harmful traditions, according to the lawsuit, which is seeking more than $50,000 in damages for the unnamed player, who reportedly was a student-athlete from 2018 to 2022. Other defendants named include current university President Michael Schill, former President Morton Schapiro, Athletic Director Derrick Gragg and the NU Board of Trustees. The lawsuit also states that Fitzgerald “enabled a culture of racism and/or other microaggressions.” In the suit, the player - represented by Patrick Salvi, of Chicago personal injury law firm Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard - alleged “longstanding issues involving hazing and bullying that takes on a sexual and/or racist tone” within the Northwestern football program. An anonymous former Northwestern University football player filed on Tuesday morning the first lawsuit against former head coach Pat Fitzgerald and the school’s leadership in the wake of the hazing scandal that left Fitzgerald without a job last week. ![]()
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