Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times
A federal court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Pop Warner, saying the two women who sued the youth football organization failed to prove that their sons’ deaths were directly linked to head trauma sustained a decade earlier as young players.
The women, Kimberly Archie and Jo Cornell, said their sons’ brain trauma was caused by playing Pop Warner football and that trauma led to irrational behavior that contributed to their deaths in 2014. Archie’s son, Paul Bright Jr., died at age 24 in a motorcycle accident. Cornell’s son, Tyler Cornell, was 25 when he died by suicide.