A federal judge on Tuesday sent back to New Jersey state court a wrongful death suit filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a Massachusetts college by the family of a football player who died of a cardiac arrest at the end of a practice.

U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson, sitting in Trenton, said the federal court, where the case had been removed by the school, now-defunct Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts, lacked jurisdiction.

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