Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to $1B NFL Concussion Settlement

December 12, 2016   ·   Tim Daniels   ·   Jump to comments

The United States Supreme Court officially rejected challenges Monday to a proposed $1 billion settlement plan between the National Football League and former players regarding concussions. 
The Associated Press (via ABC News) reported the court's decision will allow the agreement, which is projected to cover 20,000 players over the next 65 years, to move forward and payments to begin.
Tom Pelissero of USA Today provided a statement from the NFL about the ruling:
Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reported when the appeal process began in August 2015 that a group of 10 retired players challenged the settlement because of how it handled chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease linked to repeated head trauma.
"It is the height of hypocrisy for the parties to defend a settlement that offers nothing for CTE to the vast majority of class members by arguing that those claims could not prevail at trial because the science is too new," law...

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