WWE Concussion Lawsuit Update

WWE’s ongoing concussion lawsuits against former wrestlers could end up being decided as early as the first week of November, according to PWInsider.

In an update to the status of these lawsuits, PWInsider’s Mike Johson reported judge Vanessa L. Bryant of the United States District Court of Connecticut recently issued two major demands to the lawyers of the plaintiffs. These demands were for the lawyers to amend their lawsuit complaints and must submit affidavits for each plaintiff involved regarding their claims within the next 35 days. The judge also threatened to toss out all of the current concussion lawsuits against the WWE if these demands are not met and possible perjury charges to be filed if the affidavits are not done to the court’s satisfaction.

The judge also singled out one of the key lawyers on the plaintiffs side, Konstantine Kyros, for using a fictional story from the 1980s as part of his basis for claiming the WWE was aware of the dangers of concussions at the time. The judge also had issues with the paperwork for each plaintiff not specifying their claims against the WWE which is the reason why new affidavits were demanded to be done.

Portion of the official statement from the judge:

“… remains unnecessarily and extremely long, with an overwhelming number of irrelevant allegations. Parsing each of the Laurinaitis Plaintiffs’ asserted claims to figure out exactly which claims might be legally and factually supportable would be both a waste of judicial resources. It would also be unduly prejudicial to the WWE and McMahon, because the precise contours of the Laurinaitis Plaintiffs’ claims are so amorphous that the WWE and McMahon would be at a loss to determine how to defend against them.

In the interests of justice, fairness to WWE and McMahon, the efficient and effective management of the Court’s docket, in an abundance of deference to the Windham Defendants and Laurinaitis Plaintiffs in their heretofore unsuccessful efforts to file pleadings in conformity with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and finally, to assure disposition of this case on the merits” that the Plaintiffs would have 35 days to file an amended pleading that would comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure” explaining the “factual basis” of each Plaintiffs’ claims or defenses “clearly and concisely.”

Source: PWInsider