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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.It is a non-issue. The new CBA will likely be done and be ready for a vote in a few days. If this ruling came out a few weeks ago, it might have made a difference. At this point, they are in striking distance of reaching the goalline.
Not sure why the judges would wait so long to rule and then rule when it seems like things are going as well as they have since the last CBA was agreed on. I guess its not the Judges jobs to worry about the negotiations but seems ill timed to me.
One of the judges was going on vacation.
Apparently they didn't limit the lockout to a term of months, either, as some speculated they would. They simply ruled that Norris LaGuardia did apply. Nor did they weigh in on whether or not anti trust exemptions continue in the face of the union decertification. Ergo the anti trust suit can continue come September if games are missed. They did remand the case back to Judge Nelson with the instruction that she must hold evidentiary hearings in order to determine whether irreparable harm was/is in fact being inflicted on FA and unsigned rookies who do not have an employee/employer relationship with the league at this time. And the case may continue in the courts and the owners would still face potential treble damages once the case is completed - although including through appeals you'd then be talking years... Hopefully this lights a fire under the NFLPA and the hardline owners don't get swelled heads in the interim. Unless he's out of contact I would not be surprised to see Doty weigh in before the day is done to try and tip the scales in the other direction...
The lockout as it pertains to FAs and rookies is being sent back to the player-friendly judge in Judge Nelson and we can imagine which way that is going to go.
I am not so sure the ruling is as much of a loss for the owners as I have seen it made out to be.
Sounds like it is actually a win-win for the owners.
Lock out continues.
But even with the lockout continuing you can start the FA period, negotiate with and sign drafted and undrafted rookies and hold rookie minicamps all before the deal is finalized.
If I am a coach in the NFL I am trilled with this and would announce rookie mini camp would be starting on Monday.
The NFL's lead lawyer Jeffrey Pash is on record that nothing will start until everything is settled and signed.
If a judge order FA to start it might start. It would not be that bad for the owners though.
The NFL's lead lawyer Jeffrey Pash is on record that nothing will start until everything is settled and signed.
Not nitpicking, just curious about this aspect. So the Norris LaGuardia Act means that no injunctions could be ordered by the courts (for labor disputes). I'm no legal scholar but could the judges technically say it's illegal but be unable to issue the injunction? In which case if they thought the lockout was legal, it wouldn't relate to the Norris Laguardia Act at all. Not nitpicking, I was just always trying to understand this aspect, out of harmless curiosity.
dkaplanSBJ daniel kaplan
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dkaplanSBJ daniel kaplan
8th: "we conclude that...the Norris-LaGuardia Act deprives a federal court of power to issue an injunction prohibiting a party to a labor dispute from implementing a lockout of its employees."
8th: a union is not required for a “labor dispute”
"the labor dispute did not suddenly disappear just because the Players elected to pursue the dispute through antitrust litigation rather than collective bargaining."