Legal Opinion
Brown v. National Football League
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 18, 2002No. 01 Civ. 4086(GEL)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LYNCH, District Judge.
This is a personal injury action brought by Orlando Brown (“Brown”), formerly a professional football player with the Cleveland Browns, and his wife Mira Brown, against the National Football League (“NFL”), seeking damages for an injury that occurred during a game when an NFL referee threw a penalty flag weighted with “BB” pellets and struck Brown in the eye, causing him to sustain eye injuries that ended his football career. The action was originally brought in New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, and was removed here by the Defendant. As it happens,…
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