{"id":405522,"date":"2016-12-13T06:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=405522"},"modified":"2016-12-13T06:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:48:43","slug":"supreme-court-leaves-1b-nfl-concussion-settlement-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=405522","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court leaves $1B NFL concussion settlement in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/supreme-court-leaves-1b-nfl-concussion-settlement-in-place\/16333776\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2016\/12\/12\/16333776\/16334953-1481629531-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court NFL Concussion Lawsuit Football\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the final two challenges to the estimated $1 billion settlement between the NFL and thousands of its former players who have been diagnosed with brain injuries linked to repeated concussions. Players who already have been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease, Parkinson&#8217;s, Alzheimer&#8217;s or dementia could begin receiving payments in 90 to 120 days. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/supreme-court-leaves-1b-nfl-concussion-settlement-in-place\/16333776\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/supreme-court-leaves-1b-nfl-concussion-settlement-in-place\/16333776\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Supreme Court leaves $1B NFL concussion settlement in place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the final two challenges to the estimated $1 billion settlement between the NFL and thousands of its former players who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}