The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied a request to reconsider arguments aimed at altering the settlement between the N.F.L. and thousands of former players who said the league hid from them the dangers of concussions.
In April, a three-judge panel in the Third Circuit unanimously affirmed the approval of the settlement, which provides up to $5 million to individual players with severe neurological diseases.
Some players who objected to the settlement asked the larger panel of appeals court judges to hear their plea, which focuses primarily on how chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease, is treated in the settlement.