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star wars: the force awakens is truly out of this world. experts are predicting by the time the box office closes today the film will become the top domestic grossing of all time, surpassing avatar s record $760 million. joining me now brian stelter. you are sort of amazing with all of this data. if you look at the top grossing films, it has already almost surpassed avatar. 740.3 million in 19 days. and we haven t even opened in china yet. the force is strong. other films, avengers, jurassic world, titanic.
these players brought the case against the nfl that it was nonsense and it wasn t going to go anywhere. now you have one of the nfl s true superstars saying i was injured and i deserve to be compensated. i think it adds a lot of credibility to the lawsuit. it already did go somewhere. there was a $765 million settlement between the league and the players that a judge threw out because it wasn t generous enough to the players. so what does this then do to it now? i m not a lawyer. i look at this and say this just goes to show that this number will be a heck of a lot higher now. you re right about that. a lot of lawyers are scratching their heads about this. when i first saw the lawsuit, i said he s got a different lawyer. maybe they have a different theory. but he hired the same lawyer that the other players had. he s filed in the same federal court that the other suit is pending in. it s the same. why would he do it? the initial settlement was $760 million. the judge looked at it a
to pay $760 million to thousands of people who either were directly affected by the concussions or those down the line of lineage of the players who might have been affected. that judge said, i m association b sorry, but that s not enough money to cover all the people and all the damage. i m joined by our guest, an attorney would hho has handled hundreds of class action lawsuit. also the consumer president of attorneys of california. my first question to you is this, if the other lawsuits, some 4,500 people i think were covered in that lawsuit, or at least not covered but were named in that lawsuit, if that is a class action lawsuit, wouldn t you think dan marino would be covered by it? anybody in the nfl affected could have joined that class action. why does he need to do this? absolutely, dan marino would be part of that class. but i think dan marino is a
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