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On Thursday, July 29th, the Circuit Court in San Francisco under Judge Alsup issued a decision on how to distribute the remaining funds that are still owed to the 2,062 retired players who were part of the Players Inc. GLA lawsuit. The first checks had gone out earlier this year and the second checks were scheduled to be sent out by the end of July but it was pointed out that there were still around 200 players who have not been located from the original list. The earlier plan was to pro-rate the remaining funds and simply add the money to the second checks. However, an extension was added in February to give some of the missing players more time to get their names and contact information in to the people administering the fund. 25 – 30 more players did manage to sign up to receive their first checks and there were still 200+ players who still haven’t signed in at this time.

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