NFL Concussion Suit Likely To Get Sacked By Employment Law

Everyone who runs an NFL team knows that growing evidence of long-term health effects from concussions is an issue that threatens the league's very future if not successfully addressed. But no one knows that in quite as personal a way as Mark Murphy, the president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, and the only former professional football player currently in charge of an NFL franchise.

This warning label is found on the back of the new Riddell 360 Helmet (Image credit: Darren Rovell via @darrenrovell) Riddell, the official helmet manufacturer of the NFL, is being sued by many retired football players for failing to effectively protect them against the long-term risk of concussions and lying about the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is a big football fan with two daughters, but if he had a son, he says he’d “have to think long and hard” before letting him play because of the physical toll the game takes. “I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,” Obama tells The New Republic.

The family of Junior Seau has sued the NFL, claiming the former linebacker's suicide was the result of brain disease caused by violent hits he sustained while playing football.

Two former New York Jets massage therapists filed a lawsuit claiming they lost their part-time jobs with the NFL club after spurning sexually suggestive advances from NFL legend Brett Favre.Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole filed the suit against Favre and the Jets in New York seeking unspecified monetary damages and a chance to resume working for the team after being the target of lewd e-mails sent when Favre was with the Jets in 2008.

Over the last year, conservative superlawyer Paul Clement has tackled cases involving the Affordable Care Act and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 

On August 17, 2011, the first ?NFL concussion lawsuit? was filed by seven former football players and their wives. ??Roughly ten months later, there are a total of eighty-nine lawsuits with over 2,400 former NFL players named as plaintiffs, and a consolidated ?Master Complaint? that summarizes all of the players? claims against the NFL, NFL ...