Attorneys representing more than 2,000 former football players in 80 lawsuits against the National Football League on Thursday filed a "master complaint" unifying their claims for concussion-related injuries with a federal court in Philadelphia. The players allege that the NFL had a duty to acknowledge and address the risks of neurological injury, but deliberately ignored and concealed this information. In February, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated their actions for proceedings in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Br...
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