Legal Opinion
Rose v. Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided September 28, 2018No. MDL No. 2492; Master Docket No. 16 C 8787; Original N.D. Ill. Docket No. 17 C 1402PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
John Z. Lee, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs Michael Rose and Timothy Stratton played football for Purdue University from 1996 to 2001. Purdue is in the Big Ten Conference ("Big Ten"), a Division I conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA").
Over the course of their college football careers at Purdue, Rose and Stratton experienced thousands of repetitive concussive and subconcussive impacts to their heads. Now they are dealing with debilitating neurodegenerative disorders and cognitive impairments due to repetitive brain trauma. As a result, Rose and Stratton,…
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