A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the University of California at Irvine and the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity alleges that the university did not adequately supervise a Lambda Phi Epsilon chapter on its campus, contributing to the death of a 19-year-old killed in a 2005 hazing incident.

The family of the young man, Kenny Luong, filed the suit, according to the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Luong, a student at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, was among a group of Cal Poly students trying to start a Lambda Phi Epsilon chapter there. The fraternity’s members are mainly Asian-American.

He was killed in an off-campus football match that pitted nine Cal Poly pledges against 40 fraternity brothers from the Irvine campus, according to his family’s lawyer and two of the other Cal Poly students. The pledges were forced to play offense for two hours so the Irvine brothers could keep tackling them, one of the Cal Poly students said. Mr. Luong was among the last three Cal Poly students remaining in the match when he was tackled and did not get up. He died two days later.

Irvine administrators suspended the fraternity chapter, but prosecutors did not bring charges in the case. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. —Lawrence Biemiller