In recent years, the University of Cincinnati Law School Law Review members have invited me to suggest topics for articles for them to consider writing about.

The Supreme Court of Ohio’s decision in  Schmitz v. Natl. Collegiate Athletic Assn., 2018-Ohio-4391 caught the fancy of Nick Eaton, who is a 3L at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He has written a law review article entitled “Sacked by the Clock: Analyzing Statute of Limitations Defenses in the Context of Football-Related CTE Lawsuits.” For the uninitiated, CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Nick’s article was published at 88 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1149 (2020) and is posted here with permission of the Law Review.

Nick describes himself as a huge football fan and spends lots of his time (when he isn’t studying, of course) watching, playing, and reading about sports. He said that this subject immediately caught his attention and that working on this article helped him gain a better understanding of the need for rule changes and concussion protocol improvements. Nick also told me that he hopes those who read his article will gain a better understanding of the need to allow some statute of limitations “wiggle room” for latent diseases like CTE. 

After graduating and taking the bar exam, Nick is going to practice in Cincinnati in the field of trusts and estate planning with the firm of Graf|Coyne.

Here’s the link to Nick’s article:

https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1369&context=uclr