A Los Angeles jury rejected a claim by the widow of a former USC football player who said the NCAA failed to protect him from repeated head trauma that led to his death.
Judge Terry Green told jurors in Los Angeles Superior Court they “made history” in the first case of its kind.
Alana Gee choked up as the verdict was read and had tears in her eyes afterward. She told one of her lawyers that she didn’t understand how the jury came to that decision, but thanked the seven women and five men personally as they left the courtroom. She declined to comment afterward.“We feel deep sympathy for the Gee family right off the bat,” Will Stute, the NCAA attorney, said afterward.
Alana Gee had testified that the college sweethearts had 20 good years of marriage before her husband’s mental health began to deteriorate and he became angry, depressed and impulsive, and began overeating and abusing drugs and alcohol.The NCAA said the case hinged on what it knew at the time Gee played, from 1988-92, and not about CTE, which was first discovered in the brain of a deceased NFL player in 2005.
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