{"id":1989,"date":"2018-09-06T11:36:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:36:53","slug":"ninth-circuit-delivers-striking-blow-to-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Circuit Delivers Striking Blow to the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samcehrlich\">issued<\/a> a devastating blow to the NFL&#8217;s bedrock defense in the prescription drug litigation.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the Court of Appeals rejected the NFL&#8217;s longstanding defense that the collective bargaining agreement preempts the state law claims. That is because, the Court held, the CBAs neither need to be interpreted nor do the players&#8217; claims arise from the CBAs. The published opinion can be found here:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dent-v.-NFL.pdf\">Dent et al v. NFL<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a result, the case will be remanded to the district court where the case will proceed with discovery and further litigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a groundbreaking decision since it is the first federal circuit court of appeals to address and reject the NFL&#8217;s longstanding defense. This will have far-reaching implications for future litigation against the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>More to come as we digest the opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a devastating blow to the NFL&#8217;s bedrock defense in the prescription drug litigation. In short, the Court of Appeals rejected the NFL&#8217;s longstanding defense that the collective bargaining agreement preempts the state law claims. That is because, the Court held, the CBAs neither need to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,627,432,13,4,113,433],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}