Player with Concussion Plays in State Championship

A district court judge in New Mexico allowed a high school football player to play in the state championship game one week after he suffered a concussion.

The family of a player at Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, N.M., challenged a 2010 New Mexico state law that says a student-athlete with a concussion may return to action “no sooner than one week after the student-athlete has received a brain injury, and no longer exhibits any sign, symptom or behavior consistent with a brain injury,” Albuquerque, N.M., TV station KRQE reports.

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