Posted on 04 April 2012. Tags: ‘bounty', appeals, case, coach, Goodell, Heard, Nfl, Roger Goodell, Saints, Scandal, Sean Payton, suspension, the Saints, Thursday
All parties who appealed their punishments in the New Orleans Saints’ “bounty” scandal will have their instances heard Thursday at NFL headquarters in New York, several sources stated and the league later confirmed.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will listen to appeals from the Saints ($ 500,000 fine, two lost draft picks), coach Sean Payton (suspension for the 2012 season), common manager Mickey Loomis (eight-game suspension) and assistant head coach Joe Vitt (six-game suspension), according to league spokesman Greg Aiello. Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, now with the St. Louis Rams, didn’t appeal his indefinite suspension.
Goodell, who will hear and rule on the appeals, has said he hopes to expedite the procedure. There is little thought any discipline would be lowered, but the appeals method could acquire all parties a lot more time to chart their futures even though punishment is becoming administered.
Payton has spoken to his old boss, former Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Parcells, about possibly taking over the Saints although he is suspended.
The NFL has but to rule on the 22 to 27 players cited in the bounty scandal, but discipline could be meted out in the near future. NFL security and league officials met with representatives from the NFL Players Association on Monday to go more than evidence.
Goodell said he hopes to receive a recommendation from NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith relating to player discipline before ruling. However, NFLPA sources stated Smith may not provide counsel on punishment.
Goodell has sole authority to punish players.
According to the league, Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma provided $ ten,000 to any New Orleans player who sidelined Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre during the NFC Championship Game in the 2009 season. No other players involved have been publicly identified by the NFL.
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Posted on 09 July 2011. Tags: appeals, appeals court, Bentley, Browns, choice, County Judge, Court, decision, district court of appeals, favor, joe jurevicius, LeCharles, lecharles bentley, Ohio, rules
Former Browns center LeCharles Bentley will be allowed to continue his lawsuit against the Browns in a county court following a decision this week by the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals.
The Browns tried to argue that the suit was related to the collectiv bargaining agreement and that state and federal laws support arbitration over litigation. The appeals court disagreed, upholding a prior County judge ruling.
Bentley is arguing that the Browns persuaded him to rehab at their unsanitary facility, which helped trigger him to get staph infection and several surgeries to fix the problem. Bentley’s attorney said his client nearly died.
Former Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius settled a similar lawsuit against the team final year.
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Posted on 16 May 2011. Tags: appeals, appeals court, Circuit, Court, court grants, Court Of Appeals, eighth circuit, Grants, Lockout, motion, news, Nfl, Nfl Lockout, NFL’s, ruling, stay, still
The NFL lockout is still on.
According to numerous reports, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has granted the NFL’s motion for a remain, meaning the lockout remains in impact.
In other words, the owners got what they wanted, and the players will be disappointed.
The timing of the news that the appeals court has granted the NFL’s motion for a remain comes as a surprise, because on Friday the court clerk said not to expect a ruling on the stay to come on Monday. But the ruling on the stay has, in truth, come on Monday.
So now we’ll all wait yet another 3 weeks, until the Eighth Circuit hears arguments on the appeal. And the players will stay locked out.
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Posted on 10 May 2011. Tags: Antitrust Liability, appeals, Court, employment, expert, getty images, national hockey league, national hockey league nhl, national hockey league players association, Nfl, NHL, side, support, urges
With the entire union-management approach to expert sports under assault right after the NFLPA decertified and sued the league for antitrust violations when faced with a likely lockout, 1 of the other major sports leagues (some would dispute the term “major”) has filed a brief in support of the owners’ position that Judge Susan Nelson’s order lifting the lockout ought to be overturned.
The National Hockey League has filed an “amicus curiae” brief, Latin for “friend of the court.” It’s a typical device utilised when a party has no stake in a given scenario, but when the party feels compelled to chime in due to the possibility that the party’s interests could be affected adversely by the eventual ruling.
And the NHL, the NBA, and Key League Baseball could all be affected adversely if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit endorses the legal technique that the NFL players have unleashed.
Explains the NHL at the outset of its submission: “The National Hockey League (‘NHL’) has a direct interest in ensuring that the determination of terms and conditions of employment for NHL players is the item of a bona fide labor procedure rather than the ‘lever’ of potential antitrust liability. This is specifically accurate in the context of the stable and mature collective bargaining relationship that the NHL and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (‘NHLPA’) have had for almost 45 years. However, under the district court’s decision and rationale, a group of employees can, at any time and for any reason, insinuate the antitrust laws into the dynamics pursuant to which new terms and conditions of employment are negotiated and determined. All a union has to do is have its members ‘disclaim’ union representation, simultaneously reconstitute itself as an employee ‘association,’ and then ask the court to immediately enjoin any joint labor activity of the employers (e.g., which includes the implementation of a lawful lockout) by filing a treble damages antitrust complaint and a motion for preliminary injunction. The NHL respectfully submits that this cannot be the state of the law.”
There’s a lot more that follows, but it is all fairly predictable. The NHL is focusing on principles of federal law that, from the naturally skewed perspective of a sports league, prevent a union when faced with a lockout from shutting down the union and filing an antitrust lawsuit.
Though NFLPA* spokesman George Atallah pointed out via Twitter the irony of the NHL’s involvement in this matter, given that NFL labor counsel Bob Batterman engineered a lockout that as soon as wiped out a full season of pro hockey, Batterman’s firm didn’t submit the brief. Instead, the brief was drafted by Shepard Goldfein, James A. Keyte, and Elliot A. Silver of Skadden Aarps Slate Meagher & Floam’s New York office. That said, it is entirely possible that Batterman encouraged the NHL to speak up in support of the NFL, before the NHL end facing a similar dilemma. The other pro sports leagues most likely need to have done the exact same thing.
And when the players respond to the league’s brief in support of its appeal, the other professional sports unions ought to submit briefs echoing the arguments in support of the capacity to shut down a union and assert antitrust liability.
As to the brief submitted Monday by the NFL, I’ll be taking a closer look at it tomorrow and sharing my thoughts regarding the league’s initial arguments aimed at keeping the lockout in place indefinitely.
For the five of you who care about such details.
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Posted on 28 April 2011. Tags: appeals, appeals court, Circuit, Court, David Boies, Lawyer David, League, Lockout, move, next, Nfl, NFL's, seek, stay, Susan Nelson
With Judge Susan Nelson denying the NFL’s motion to stay the lifting of the lockout pending appeal, the NFL’s only hope of avoiding the opening of the 2011 league year resides in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. On Tuesday, lawyer David Boies told PFT Live that the league would promptly seek…
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Posted on 27 April 2011. Tags: appeals, appeals court, Court, District Judge, fight, Handed, Lockout, Nfl, ready, Richard Nelson, Setback, turn
Handed a setback by one judge this week, the NFL is preparing to call on another court for help in this fight with the players over the present and future of the $ 9 billion business. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson sided with the players and lifted the lockout, and she said Tuesday she’ll hear from them Wednesday morning before considering the league’s request to put her ruling on…
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Posted on 31 December 2010. Tags: appeals, Brandon Meriwether, Defensive Backs, Dunta Robinson, Espn, Espn Com Nfl, Espn Nfl, fines, Harrison, James, James Harrison, others, Receivers, reduces
The NFL reduced fines to defensive backs Dunta Robinson and Brandon Meriwether for flagrant hits against defenseless receivers Thursday, and used them as a guideline to reduce an earlier fine to Pittsburgh’s James Harrison.
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