3rd Circuit Says Players Can't Take Appeal from Proposed NFL Concussion Settlement

The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will not allow seven retired professional football players to challenge a settlement proposal by the National Football League targeted at resolving a long-running dispute about what the league knew about the risks of brain injury to its players and what it should have done. The case was In re: National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation, No. 14-8103. Claims against the NFL, asserting that the league has failed to acknowledge and address the risks of neurological injury to players and committed fraud by actively concealing...