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Earlier this year, the NHL requested that Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center release its research documents on the brain disease CTE, as reported by Law360. Former players allege the NHL minimized the harmful effects of head injuries for decades. Researcher, Dr. Ann McKee, expressed concern that the NHL may be trying to discredit the study on concussions—which has analyzed roughly 350 brains of former athletes. The Center argued that allowing the NHL access to these documents would violate the privacy of the patients’ families as CTE can only be diagnosed by an autopsy analysis of the brain. On February 22, 2017, the court overruled a request by the NHL for an expert’s annotated bibliography of a report with names of former players. Zimmerman Reed represents former players experiencing problems from their professional playing days.