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BUTLER v. BRG SPORTS, LLC

Nos. 1-18-0362 and 1-18-0394 (cons.).

141 N.E.3d 1104 (2019)

2019 IL App (1st) 180362

Michael BUTLER, Melvin Carter, Craig Curry, James Harrell, Robert Harris, Carlton Bailey Jones, Brad Quest, John Michael Reichenbach, Adam Schreiber, Eric Wright, Gary Anderson, Michael Clark, Chris Dieterich, Gerald Feehery, William Gay, Jeff Herrod, James Jones, Ernest Mills, Bruce Taylor, Thomas Vaughn, Lawrence Watkins, Felix Wright, Rahim Abdullah, Douglas Beaudoin, Rod Davis, Major Everett, David Galloway, Kenneth Green, Ricky Nattiel, Mark Nichols, Bernard Whittington, John L. Williams, Michael Williams, Glen Young, Antoine Cash, Glen Earl, Joe Odom, Chartic Darby, Central McClellion, Maurice Morris, Gerald Wunsch, Jeffrey Bryant, Dan Fike, David Hadley, Walter Lee (Todd) Howard, Sean Love, Cleophus Miller, Gregory Brown, Alphonso Carreker, Wendell Patrick Carter, Al Davis, Eric Hipple, Lemar Parrish, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BRG SPORTS, LLC f/k/a Easton-Bell Sports, LLC, EB Sports Corp., BRG Sports Holdings Corp., BRG Sports, Inc., Riddell Sports Group, Inc., Riddell Inc., and All American Sports Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Charles Ali, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BRG Sports, LLC f/k/a Easton-Bell Sports, LLC, EB Sports Corp., BRG Sports Holdings Corp., BRG Sports, Inc., Riddell Sports Group, Inc., Riddell, Inc., and All American Sports Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, FIRST DIVISION.

October 21, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Demetrio and William T. Gibbs , of Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., of Chicago, and Brad R. Sohn , of The Brad Sohn Law Firm, PLLC, of Coral Gables, Florida, for appellants.

Karen Kies DeGrand , Mark H. Boyle , and Michael H. Adler , of Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC, of Chicago, and Robert L. Wise , of Bowman and Brooke LLP, of Richmond, Virginia, for appellees.

OPINION

¶ 1 These appeals stem from an important issue facing professional athletics and contemporary culture as a whole: former professional football players developing significant neurological disorders after sustaining repeated concussions from playing...

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