True or False? The Constitution of the United States of America guarantees every injured party his or her day in court? You’d have been correct with either answer. While the Constitution does make that guarantee, other laws and pleading rules tend to cloud it. That’s the situation players who opted out of the NFL Concussion Settlement are looking at due to a recently filed order.
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The Blitz 12/10/17
Essential Sports & Sports Law News Week in Review 12/10/17 ?Read of the Week: Compelling read:
Forget About Colin Kaepernick; I Think I’m Done With the NFL Just Because I Don’t Want to Watch Someone Die https://t.co/vw8Sg50Fk7 via @verysmartbros — Sheilla Dingus (@SheillaDingus) December 9, 2017 ⚖️Litigation Lane: NFL Concussion Settlement …
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The NFL’s Preemption Trap and How Concussion Settlement Opt-Outs Plan to Avoid It
December 9, 2017
Sheilla Dingus As concussion settlement class members struggle to overcome delays and denials in the much heralded and massively disappointing NFL Concussion Settlement, opt-out claims are quietly moving forward. By 2012 hundreds of brain injury cases were filed against the NFL, and in some instances helmet maker Riddell, …
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The Blitz 9/17/17
Important Sports & Sports Law News Week of September 18, 2017 ?Read of the Week: I was hesitant to use one of my own stories here, and I want you to know I AM NOT plugging my journalism skills, but rather Susan Owens’ story is so moving, so powerful, and so important – I …
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