Plaintiffs in CHL lawsuit considering options after class-action request denied
The lawyer representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey League, the country’s three major junior circuits and its teams related to disturbing allegations of sexual assault and torture suffered by teenage players says his clients are considering “various options” after a class-action request was denied.
The plaintiffs, including former NHL player Daniel Carcillo, can still appeal the decision or launch individual lawsuits against the leagues and teams. Perell’s 103-page ruling quoted from sworn statements by unidentified players describing what they experienced when some were as young as 15. Perell wrote in his Feb. 3 decision the evidence established that players were “tortured, forcibly confined, shaved, stripped, drugged, intoxicated, physically and sexually assaulted; raped, gang raped, forced to physically and sexually assault other teammates.”
He accepted the former players’ evidence and described the main plaintiffs – Carcillo, Garrett Taylor and Stephen Quirk – as “genuine heroes.” The judged added in his ruling that “the immediate lawsuit is about egregious harms perpetrated on children and the persons or entities at fault should be punished.”
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