There's been growing awareness and research into CTE in sports since 2013, when the National Football League in the United States settled lawsuits — at a cost at the time of $765 million — from thousands of former players who developed dementia or other concussio...
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I’vewrittenabout environmental lawsuits in the name of nature’s rights. But they’ve usually been brought by people on behalf of nature. Renowned environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert brings us the story of nature suing on itsownbehalf. As she notes and as we document below, this case is...
Of course there were a lot of other factors at play (like the threat of discrimination lawsuits), but it’s safe to say that the 1970s, thanks to Title IX, led to the understanding that sports coverage, as well as who covered sports, needed to be more inclusive. As I point out in ...
Asian Americans are also under attack in society today, as noted in the previous section, for their perceived role in ending affirmative action in college admissions. The 2023 Supreme Court rulings on the Students for Fair Admissions lawsuits have effectively reversed 45 years of legal precedent es...
In the United States, there are several whistleblower incentive programs: TheFalse Claims Actprovides whistle blower rewards of up to25 percentof the total funds the government recovers using the whistleblower’s information. The largest recovery in a False Claims Act action is$3 billion. Successfu...