[2006alum]

Hayley Hodson filed a lawsuit in March 2018 against Stanford and USAV for concussions she suffered in practices.  Her case was finally scheduled to go to a jury trial last week.  I just checked on it and found that a settlement was reached last week between Hodson and Stanford.

Over five and a half years, literally hundred of motions and documents filed with the Santa Clara County Superior Civil Court and now they decide to settle.  If both sides had settled back in 2018 they could have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and put that into the settlement

I have no idea about the settlement.  I had read Hodson and her parents were asking for a boatload of money.

I know next to nothing about the case other than that some of Hodson's public-facing statements struck me as somewhat ungracious. That said, eve-of-trial settlements are *very* common: often courts don't rule motions in limine (who and what can appear / be argued at trial) until just before trial begins, and how a court rules on those decisions affects the strength of each side's case, and therefore what they're willing to settle for. Not sure if this happened in this case, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it did.

[2006alum]

Hayley Hodson filed a lawsuit in March 2018 against Stanford and USAV for concussions she suffered in practices.  Her case was finally scheduled to go to a jury trial last week.  I just checked on it and found that a settlement was reached last week between Hodson and Stanford.

Over five and a half years, literally hundred of motions and documents filed with the Santa Clara County Superior Civil Court and now they decide to settle.  If both sides had settled back in 2018 they could have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and put that into the settlement

I have no idea about the settlement.  I had read Hodson and her parents were asking for a boatload of money.

I know next to nothing about the case other than that some of Hodson's public-facing statements struck me as somewhat ungracious. That said, eve-of-trial settlements are *very* common: often courts don't rule motions in limine (who and what can appear / be argued at trial) until just before trial begins, and how a court rules on those decisions affects the strength of each side's case, and therefore what they're willing to settle for. Not sure if this happened in this case, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it did.