Gee

Filed 12/24/24 Certified for Publication 1/10/25 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

ALANA GEE, B327691

Plaintiff and Appellant, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 20STCV43627 v.

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION,

Defendant and Respondent.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Terry Green, Judge. Affirmed. Edelson, Todd Logan, Roger Perlstadt, Amy B. Hausmann and Hannah Hilligoss for Plaintiff and Appellant. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Christopher J. Schmidt, Jonathan B. Potts, Lauren G. Simon, Jean-Claude Andre, Matthew Stanford and K. Lee Marshall for Defendant and Respondent. _______________________ This lawsuit arises from the 2018 death of Matthew Gee at the age of 49. Matthew Gee had played football for the University of Southern California (USC) from 1988 to 1992. In the fall of 1989, he was one of twelve linebackers on USC’s depth chart. Matthew Gee was the fifth of those linebackers to die, all before age 50.1 (Rosenberg, USC’s Dying Linebackers— Not So Much a Mystery (Oct. 7, 2020)…