122487P.pdf   09/23/2013  Carl Lee Eller  v.  NFL Players Association
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2487
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Beam and Bye, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - National Football League Litigation. In a class action 
   lawsuit brought by retired NFL players against the Players Association, 
   its executive direction and certain of the Brady case plaintiffs asserting 
   the defendants wrongfully barred retirees from the Brady settlement 
   negotiations and agreed to a settlement which provided the retired players 
   with fewer benefits than they could have obtained for themselves, the 
   district court did not err in dismissing the retired players' claims for 
   intentional interference with prospective economic gain as no reasonable 
   jury could find the players had a reasonable expectation of a prospective 
   separate contractual relation with the NFL that would provide more than 
   the increased benefits provided by the 2011 CBA; nor did the plaintiffs 
   establish that the Brady plaintiffs improperly interfered with any such 
   expectation.