The National Football League could see a long-running lawsuit brought on behalf of retired players revived for a second time by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

At least two of the three Ninth Circuit judges who previously revived the suit in an earlier appeal—Judges Richard Tallman and Jay Bybee—seemed sympathetic to the players’ argument Thursday that the league was negligent in administering controlled substances.

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