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PFS74---what an awesome post! Thanks for sharing. I think that you provide excellent reasoning for your "gut" feeling(s) on this matter. The one and only point that I'd respectfully disagree with, would be your very first point.
From many conversations with my wife's father (my FIL) who is a 35-40 year labor attorney and one of so and so's "top 500" lawyers in the country for this subject matter, the court rarely wishes to get involved in these matters, and often tosses them right back at the two parties telling them to work out their differences. In the case of Judge Berman, I'm not quite as sure as you may be that he's necessarily showing his hand at there being "something to settle," as you suggest. I think he'd likely do the same exact thing to 9/10 cases involving labor disputes under contract. Just my humble opinion, as I don't know anything more than you on the subject. Here's hoping that you're correct!
For what it's worth, I brought up the suggestion during Father's Day dinner way back in June in regards to the possibility of the injunction due to the timeframe involved, and the fact that I personally did not expect an appeal ruling from Goodell for another 7-10 days. I knew that sonofa***** would drag it out as long as possible. My FIL did not agree with the idea of the injunction and stated that "they'll likely ask for an expedited decision, instead." On the way home in the car, I told my wife how much I disagreed.....and here we are. LOL.
I'm influenced by the lawyers on Twitter who are saying that Berman's exhortations to settle go way beyond even the norm you're describing.
That said, I'm not sure those are specifically LABOR lawyers who are tweeting that.