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Colin Kaepernick And Eric Reid Strike Settlement Deal With NFL In Collusion Case
Judge: Hernandez’s Child Can’t Sue NFL Over Brain Disease
Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick during their silent protest.
Aaron Hernandez’s ex fi- ancee and his daughter in court.
The 6-year-old daughter of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez missed a 2014 deadline to opt out of the league’s concussion settlement and can’t separately pursue a $20 million suit over his diag- nosis of a degenerative brain disease, a judge ruled.
Yet Hernandez’s death in 2017 came too late for his fam- ily to seek up to $4 million in compensation for suicides re- lated to chronic traumatic en- cephalopathy under the class action settlement.
Hernandez spent three years with the New England Pa- triots before his 2013 arrest on the first of three homicide charges. The Patriots termi- nated his $40 million contract, and he never returned to the NFL.
U. S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia — where lawsuits were consolidated al- leging the NFL hid what it knew about the risks of concussion in- juries — ruled Thursday that he was effectively retired and therefore, along with his family, bound by the class action settle- ment for NFL retirees.
Under terms of the concus- sion settlement, the judge said, “The crux of the issue is whether Hernandez was ‘seeking active employment’ as an NFL football player as of July 7, 2014. He was not. On this date, Hernandez had been imprisoned — without bail — for nearly a year.”
The legal battle between Colin Kaepernick and the NFL is reportedly over. Ac- cording to CBS Sports, the for- mer San Francisco 49er quarterback and recently signed Carolina Panther Eric Reid made a confidential set- tlement with league this week.
Kaepernick, who hasn’t played for the NFL since the end of the 2016 season, filed a grievance against team owners for allegedly blackballing him for taking a knee during the National Anthem over a year
ago.Attorney Mark Geragos and the NFL made a joint statement on the decision.
“For the past several months, counsel for Mr. Kaepernick and Mr. Reid have engaged in an ongoing dialogue with rep- resentatives of the NFL,” the statement read. “As a result of those discussions, the parties have decided to resolve the pending grievances. The reso- lution of this matter is subject to a confidentiality agreement so there will be no further comment by any party.”
Even though the NFL made a $89 million donation to other protesting players’ causes in November 2017, Kaepernick continued his fight for justice and alleged the NFL’s 32 owners caved under political pressure and colluded to keep him out of the game.
The NFL Players Association commented on the situation via Twitter on Friday (Febru- ary 15).
“We are not privy to the de- tails of the settlement, but sup- port the decision by the players and their counsel,” the state- ment read in part. “We contin- uously supported Colin and Eric from the start of their protests, participated with their lawyers throughout their legal proceedings and were prepared to participate in the upcoming trial in pursuit of both truth and justice for what we believe the NFL and its clubs did to them.”
Kaepernick started his on- field protests in 2016 to raise awareness of racial injustice
and police brutality in Amer-
ica. Colin Kaepernick’s Lawyer Predicts
Patriots Or Panthers Will Sign His Client
COLIN KAEPERNICK
Was the settlement between Colin Kaepernick and the NFL the first step in the quar- terback’s return to the field? It sounds like that may be the case.
Kaepernick’s lawyer Mark Geragos was on CNN Saturday and predicted that a team will step up and sign his client. He named the Carolina Panthers, whose starter Cam Newton is coming off shoul- der surgery, as one contender. He mentioned the New Eng- land Patriots as another possi- bility.
Report: Kaepernick Settlement Was In $60-$80 Million Range
The biggest question many had after learning of Colin Kaepernick’s settlement with the NFL was what the league gave him to put the en- tire thing behind them. While we still don’t know for sure, we appear to have our first guess.
According to Mike Free- man of Bleacher Report, NFL officials believe the league paid out something between $60 million and $80 million as part of the settlement.
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