A faction of retired professional football players unhappy with the terms of the NFL’s $1 billion concussion litigation settlement have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their grievances.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed late Tuesday, lawyers representing dozens of players—out of the roughly 20,000 who would be compensated under the settlement, upheld in April by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit—took issue with the neurological science used to form the basis of the settlement, as well as the district judge’s handling of discovery.
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