The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has granted the National Football League’s motion to consolidate and centralize four concussion lawsuits against the league in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, with the potential for 16 other similar suits to follow.

In an order filed Tuesday, John G. Heyburn II, a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky judge and chairman of the MDL panel, said defendant NFL Properties, as well as plaintiffs in the four main suits and nine potentially related suits, supported the NFL’s motion.

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