JACKSON, Miss. -- Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will remain as a defendant in a civil lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the United States, a Mississippi judge ruled Monday.
Circuit Judge Faye Peterson wrote that Favre's attorneys made "unpersuasive and inapplicable" arguments in seeking to have him removed as one of more than three dozen people or businesses being sued by the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
"Obviously, Brett Favre is disappointed in the court's ruling," his spokesman, Alex Pfeiffer, said in a statement Monday.