Class Action
Mar. 23, 2023
Panel reluctant to revive NFL players’ doping class action
The class action, filed in 2014 by Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Richard Dent and eight other former NFL players, has bounced back and forth between Alsup — who has dismissed the players’ claims — and the 9th Circuit, which has revived at least one of them. But Tuesday’s oral arguments suggest the NFL may have finally squelched the class action for good.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel expressed little interest in reviving a class action by nine former NFL players who accused the league of negligence for allowing teams to dope them to get them back on the football field, causing a host of medical problems down the line.
Two of the judges on a Tuesday afternoon panel told the plaintiffs’ attorney, Phillip J. Closius of Silverman Thompson Slutkin White LLC, that they weren’t persu...
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