In case some of you missed it last year, there was a lawsuit filed on behalf of all retired football players to recover royalties from the NFL and NFL Films for re-packaging and distributing footage of games from years past. The suit was initiated by attorney and former player Bob Stein (1969 – 1975 Kansas City Chiefs, LA Rams, Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers) and filed in August 2009 and it was originally led by plaintiffs Fred Dryer, Jim Marshall, Elvin Bethea, Joe Senser, Dan Pastorini and Ed White.
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Since then, the case has gone through some changes that we’ve learned about through the many public filings available in the court system. We’ve noticed that Zimmerman & Reed is no longer representing this class (all of the plantiffs have apparently fired them) and we have also learned that Hausfeld LLP and Zelle Hoffman (both firms from the ongoing Eller Class action) have now added their weight and resources to keep moving this lawsuit forward with Bob Stein.
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You never know what you’re going to find when you go digging around in your old filing cabinets. Especially John Houser’s (LA Rams, Dallas Cowboys, St. Louis Cardinals 1957 – 1963) old filing cabinets! We received a comment to the previous post from John earlier:
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Well, lookie here! See what I found in the deep, dark catacombs of my filing cabinet. It’s a copy of the first attempt to form an NFL Retired Players Association …and look at the 3rd paragraph, page 1 – to wit…
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“The purpose of the new organization are many. Most significantly, the retired players now have a vote on the pension board which consists of two owners and two players, etc. This marks the first time that we have had equal representation on the committee which has complete authority to administer, amend, and regulate the pension plan,” and more etc., etc.
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Here are some pictures from my second visit to the Amen Clinic this past December. I wanted to let some of the other guys see the entire process is actually painless and simple.
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