right now the mother of former kansas city chiefs linebacker javon belcher is suing the team for the himself on december 12. a similar suit has been filed on behalf of belcher's 16-month-old daughter. 22 former players are suing the team for not informing them of the dangers of head injuries. kenneth mcclain is an attorney representing belcher's daughter zoe. he is also representing the former players suing the chiefs. let's start there. explain to me in the simplest of terms here, how the chiefs are responsible for belcher's murder/suicide. >> well, in missouri we have a legal standard which if you caused or contributed to cause an injury to someone, you're responsible for it. in this instance, javon belcher had severe concussions nearly one month before the event that took his life. and his girlfriend's life, the mother of zoe. he had had a severe concussion. the team knew that he was asking mental problems and yet took no precautions to make sure that he was not going to be in a situation where he was at risk of harming himself and others, despite this knowledge. >> but how do you

the allegation here is that javon belcher's mental state was in their care and custody.er all aspects of his life, including his mental state. even going so far as to send him to counselling. they were monitoring his mental state at the same time the general manager was riding him, telling him he was on his way out. he had a very serious concussion less than a month before this all occurred, and he was on a very serious downward spiral. the chiefs owed him a duty of due care, and they didn't exercise it in this instance, particularly in light of the fact at this point in time, the chiefs were very well aware of the effects of concussions and how many players had committed suicide. >> paul, but let me get a question in for paul here. what do you think, how big of a legal threat are lawsuits like these to the nfl? is the league's viability at risk? >> well, frankly, i think if -- out of business. what are you going to do, bubble-wrap these players? this is a sport that depends on hard contact between players and really no way to completely protect them from injuries, and t

police say javon belcher opened fire on his girlfriend, who was cassandra perkins, at their home in kansase time belcher's mother was with the couple's daughter in a different room. after her son left she called 9-1-1. the former linebacker drove to the parking lot of the chiefs stadium where he shot himself in the head in front of his coach and others. his mother says he had multiple concussions and each case she said the chiefs did not provide the right care. so far there is no word front the kansas city chiefs. >> the niece of the fashion designer ralph lauren got too rowdy on a flight and was charged with being drunk and disorderly flying from spain to new york. the plane made an unscheduled stop in ireland so police could arrest her. here she is after a hearing in ireland. the hearing was in a pub, not a courthouse, because that's where we're told that area of ireland does conduct court. because they don't have a courthouse. a police officer testified that lauren told the accusing officers to speak to her in english. apparently as opposed to english with an irish accent. >>> i used to

. >>> it's been a year since former nfl player javon belcher shot his girlfriend, then took his own life team officials at the kansas city chiefs training facility. was his suicide the team's fault? belcher's mother says yes and cnn's brian todd is following this story. brian, it's another one of these cases, another tragic case of an nfl player taking his life, harming others, and there's this issue of concussions and whether there's a connection. >> it keeps cropping up. belcher's mother now suing the kansas city chiefs, saying he unknowingly sacrificed his brain during the career -- during his career with the team. and the suit says the chiefs not only ignored that, but bullied him into playing through his injuries. a horrific morning. december 1st, 2012. kansas city chiefs linebacker jovon belcher shot his girlfriend nine times, killing her. inside the house, their infant daughter and belcher's mother, who made a frantic call to police with the baby crying in the background. >> is she bleeding? >> yes, she is. >> where is she bleeding from? >> i can't tell, from the back it looks lik

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the mother of javon belcher who shot his girlfriend and took his own life last december, the mother hasngful death suit against the team on tuesday claiming that belcher was suffering from concussion-related injuries when he went on a rampage. >> we all know that concussions are serious health issues in the nfl. we know that it's a financial issue in the nfl with a big settlement right now. >> huge. >> the question is, is this now also a legal issue the way this mother is saying? what kind of case does she have? t. could be, john but it's problematic for a number of reasons. let's start here. you're looking at four things, duty, breach, causation, damages. what does that mean? did the team owe him a legal duty? of course they did. did they breach that duty. >> that's going to be litigated and was their breach the cause of his death? that's damages to the last portion. here's the problem. even if you could establish it's this cte, chronic traumatic brain injury that they're alleging that he may have had, they're going to exhume the body. they're going to make a determinations so to wheth