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My friends Roger Orlando and Ronnie Mabra are doing good work, and here is a PR I just receivedfrom them:

Atlanta, GA (November 22, 2013) –

In a key filing today, more than 25 former college football players including lead Plaintiffs JerryCaldwell from Georgia Tech and Johnny Brown from the University of Georgia have asked to holdthe NCAA accountable for life altering brain injuries suffered on fields of play.

The lawsuit, filed in Federal Court in Atlanta, GA on behalf of all former college football playerswho are experiencing the same type of problems associated with repeated traumatic head injuries,seeks medical monitoring and testing. Each suffered traumatic and lifelong brain injuries.

The Complaint lists former football players from across the USA. They played the game atuniversities ranging from Stanford, Boston College, and Vanderbilt, to Valdosta State and Ft. ValleyState.

The complaint claims that the NCAA had a duty to educate former players about the risks ofconcussions and asks an Atlanta Georgia Court to establish protocols to prevent, mitigate,monitor, diagnose, and treat brain injuries; and to offer education and needed medical monitoringto its former players.

The attorneys for all the players are, Roger Orlando and Ronnie Mabra. Mr. Orlando says that theNCAA has not taken the necessary steps to protect these former players: “For decades the NCAAknew of the dangers of head injuries to student athletes . Indeed, its founding was based in part onthe brutality of the game in the early 1900s. These injuries have affected former players of all agesat all levels of college football.”

Mr. Mabra, counsel on the filed action and a former Georgia Tech football player and current statelegislator notes: “of all cases recently filed, none have the diversity and true representation thatthis filed case has,” noting that concussions harmed players from large well known universities tosmall state based colleges.

The complaint seeks a court-supervised, NCAA-funded, comprehensive medical monitoringprogram to benefit former football players.

Roger@orlandofirm.com (mailto:Roger@orlandofirm.com), Ronnie@mabrafirm.com

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