Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody dismissed a lawsuit from former NFL players Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport, who argued that the league's settlement fund allows for "'race-norming'in dementia tests for retired NFL players, a practice that some say makes it harder for Black athletes to qualify" for compensation, per Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press.
Brody instead ordered mediation between the NFL and the settlement's lead lawyer, potentially excluding Henry and Davenport from the negotiations.
"We are deeply concerned that the Court's proposed solution is to order the very parties who created this discriminatory system to negotiate a fix," lawyer Cyril V.