NFL Fights to Keep Brain Injury Suit in Federal Court

Attorneys on both sides of a costly class-action lawsuit pitting 75 former football players against the National Football League are engaged in a pretrial scrimmage, with each side trying to gain procedural advantages over the other. The case of Maxwell v. NFL will head to a hearing at a federal district court in downtown Los Angeles at some point in the next two months, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The hearing will help Judge Manuel L. Real decide whether to grant the plaintiffs' wish to remand the case back to Californi...