Legal Opinion
In re National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n Student-Athlete Concussion Injury Litigation
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 26, 2016No. MDL No. 2492; Master Docket No. 13 C 9116PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*583MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
John Z. Lee, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs in this multi-district litigation are current and former collegiate athletes, who have sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) on a class-wide basis, asserting various contractual and common law claims arising from the manner in which the NCAA has handled student-athlete concussions and concussion-related risks over the years. After extensive discovery, the parties in the first-filed case, Arrington v. NCAA, No. 1:11-cv-06356 (N.D.Ill.2011), commenced settlement negotiations with the assistance…
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