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Thomas said the process of compensation was getting faster, and being made "less legalistic, less adversarial".

He said the amount of compensation being paid out had doubled in the last six months and the government was trying to make the compensation schemes "less legalistic, less adversarial".

So, the focus on the fairly-dormant but easy-to-understand Crime Bill comes with a real cost: largely ignoring the technocratic and legalistic law that still holds real consequence—the PLRA.

“I think you can make a legalistic argument that something like that is already prohibited,” Berger told reporters in late April.

OTA, of course, is just an NFL legalistic term for “practice,” mostly denoting that the workouts are voluntary and cannot involve full pads or contact.