District Court, N.D. Illinois January 26, 2016, MDL No. 2492; Master Docket No. 13 C 9116 (In re National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n Student-Athlete Concussion Injury Litigation)

*583MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

John Z. Lee, United States District Judge

Plaintiffs in this multi-district litigation are current and former collegiate athletes, who have sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) on a class-wide basis, asserting various contractual and common law claims arising from the manner in which the NCAA has handled student-athlete concussions and