“As a football fan, I’m incensed by what I saw and heard,” says Bart Daniels, a former United States attorney in South Carolina. “As a lawyer, the other legal shoe is getting ready to drop. There’s going to be action taken. The question becomes, what action can be taken, and what action is likely going to be taken.”
Williams could be open to incitement or conspiracy charges, some legal experts say. Such action is very rare in the United States, says Paul Haagen, a law professor and co-director of the Center for Sports Law and Policy at Duke. But there hasn’t been a case quite like this one, either. More than two dozen people are involved, from players to coaches to team executives.
Ex-players have sued because a sport pitting 250lb men v 300lb men has led to concussions. There is no way they are not sued in this case. No way.
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