Other organizations continued to publish study results that linked repeated concussions and long-term health problems contrary to reports by the MTBI Committee.

1. Concussion Protecting NFL Players
With continued pressure to protect players, the NFL began preventing players knocked
unconscious by a concussion from returning to a game or practice, a policy that applied to
Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best in 2009. Various players have filed lawsuits against the
league for the concussions, accusing the league of hiding information that linked head trauma to
permanent brain damage, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia. Some teams chose not to draft
certain players in the NFL Draft due to their past concussion history. According to an Outside
the Lines report, the head impact telemetry system (HITS) was in question by the League,
although Dr. University, a professor at the University of North Carolina, said the system is
functional. However, former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver and current NBC Sports analyst Hines
Ward stated the use of the system would be "opening a Pandora's Box," and that the data
recorded by the system could be used by team owners to give players lower salaries.
In November 2011, the Cleveland Clinic Center for Spine Health created an online study
released by the Journal of Neurosurgery in which various football helmets were compared with
each other via crash test dummies. It was also found that leather helmets provided similar results
to modern helmets, and in some cases, the leather helmets proved to have superior protection
against concussive blows. However, the leather helmets did not provide as much protection
against skull fractures.
Federal NFL Concussion Litigation
In April 2011, attorneys Sol H. Weiss and Larry E. Coben from the Philadelphia law firm of
Anapol Schwartz filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Ray Easterling, Jim McMahon and five
other players. Thousands of former NFL players have since filed lawsuits against the League
after suffering repeated concussions throughout their careers.
The multidistrict litigation (MDL) titled In re: National Football League Players' Concussion
Injury Litigation (MDL 2323) was filed on January 31, 2012 in the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge Anita B. Brody presides over the matter.[20] The
master administrative long-form complaint, filed by Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel Sol Weiss and
Christopher Seeger on June 7, 2012, alleges the League "…was aware of the evidence and the
risks associated with repetitive traumatic brain injuries virtually at the inception, but deliberately
ignored and actively concealed the information from the Plaintiffs and all others who
participated in organized football at all levels." The master complaint argues the NFL knew or
should have known players who sustain repetitive head injuries or concussion are at risk of
suffering "… early-onset of Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, depression, deficits in cognitive
functioning, reduced processing speed, attention and reasoning, loss of memory, sleeplessness,
moods wings, personality changes, and the debilitating and latent disease known as Chronic
traumatic encephalopathy ('CTE')."
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