On April 22, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia produced a 132-page opinion approving the settlement between the National Football League and a class of thousands of former football players who accused the NFL of negligence and failure to inform players of the link between repeated traumatic head impacts and long-term brain injuries.

Though it is unclear what the result of future lawsuits will be, the NFL will have to continue to develop its protocol on how it deals with the potential for concussion and brain injury. Tim Epstein elaborates in his article for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.