Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Steven Strauss '78 represented the family of NFL player Junior Seau in their wrongful death litigation against the National Football League. Seau committed suicide at the age of 43 by shooting himself in the chest and thereby preserving his brain and sending a message to the world about the serious mental health risks confronting NFL players. Strauss will discuss the family’s efforts to confirm that Seau had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the NIH sponsored study of his brain, the lawsuit against the NFL, the reasons the family opted out of the class settlement, and the severe challenges that athletes with CTE face in the future.