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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.OK.PFS74, you are the Patfanken of this legal case.
Thank you for your great insight. I'm learning lots just from reading your continuing commentary.
I would be very surprised if this guy reads anything beyond the front section of the NYT, the NYT's Sunday Review and Magazine (which ran a very favorable article on TB in January), the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, when it comes to local media. He probably has his clerks scan the Post and Daily News.I hope Berman's good "understanding" of the case already didn't come from "knowledge" provided by the NY media.
Might depend on what he had for breakfast...What if, as some in the media have speculated, the main sticking point is an admission of guilt? If the NFL absolutely insists on an admission, and Brady absolutely insists on refusal, then which side is the one not acting in good faith?
I don't understand how a judge can be so blase about wanting to get through a case as fast as possible because he doesn't want to deal with it. It's his ****ing job and maybe he should be in a different line of work if he can't handle cases with nuance.
I agree with this to a large extent. I have seen several comments about how he has "much more important stuff to do."I don't understand how a judge can be so blase about wanting to get through a case as fast as possible because he doesn't want to deal with it. It's his ****ing job and maybe he should be in a different line of work if he can't handle cases with nuance.
I don't understand how a judge can be so blase about wanting to get through a case as fast as possible because he doesn't want to deal with it. It's his ****ing job and maybe he should be in a different line of work if he can't handle cases with nuance.
I agree with this to a large extent. I have seen several comments about how he has "much more important stuff to do."
OK, I admit that (as a wise man once said) "This isn't ISIS," but it is a pretty important labor issue for the largest sports league in the country and there are a couple million dollars at stake, to say nothing of the public fascination with the whole thing.
What has made sense so far anyway?I'm fuzzy on this...Brady will get fined for not turning over his phone that Wells never asked for and didn't want? How exactly does THIS make sense?
I think thats why the outcome might not be happy for both sides in the end.And unless one side is willing to roll the dice and risk Berman's vacating or upholding the entire finding, each side is going to have to give something. Woe to the side that Berman feels was not cooperating. I've never met this guy, but I've lived in New York for 25 years and I feel like I know him from dealing with so many people like him in the legal and financial worlds.
The two sides that have requested an expedited hearing. The judge is accommodating them.
And people need to stop reading into the settlement letter from the judge, because it's just a letter telling the two sides that he would prefer to see this settled. The judges always want arbitration cases to settle outside of their courtrooms. That doesn't mean that either side has any inherent advantage if they don't, or that both sides have to sacrifice their principles or get screwed just because the judge had to actually do his job.
Good info.The other arbitrator is Barbara Jones. She was a judge in the same court as Judge Berman.
The other arbitrator is Barbara Jones. She was a judge in the same court as Judge Berman.
Good info.
So she could be potentially designated by Bermen to play referee and make a ruling?
I really don't get the settlement discussions. Brady is in court now because he wants 0 games..not sure how there can be any settlement now. Doesn't Berman understand this?Berman already named some other judge to be standing by to help with settlement discussions. I forget the details.
Berman already named some other judge to be standing by to help with settlement discussions. I forget the details.
I really don't get the settlement discussions. Brady is in court now because he wants 0 games..not sure how there can be any settlement now. Doesn't Berman understand this?