NFL News Patriots fans sue NFL for Draft Picks

[Todd Bradley]

Everyone is saying this "makes us look bad"....

Come on......the entire league calls us "Cheaters" and "Cheatriots", coached by "Bill Belicheat" and quarterbacked by "Tom Shady".

This certainly can't make us look any worse than we're perceived.

 

[ReverendMaynard]

Everyone is saying this "makes us look bad"....

Come on......the entire league calls us "Cheaters" and "Cheatriots", coached by "Bill Belicheat" and quarterbacked by "Tom Shady".

This certainly can't make us look any worse than we're perceived.

Agreed.

Bob Kraft makes us look far worse than this every time he steps to the podium.

 

[Todd Bradley]

Agreed.

Bob Kraft makes us look far worse than this every time he steps to the podium.

Yeah Kraft is the real clown throughout all of this.

Hey, if this guy wants to waste his time and money, go for it. It's not mine, so I don't care.

At the end of the day, I'll give the guy credit for actually sticking to his word and doing something about it, unlike our gutless owner.

This isn't going to go anywhere, but kudos to him none the less for trying.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Yeah Kraft is the real clown throughout all of this.

Hey, if this guy wants to waste his time and money, go for it. It's not mine, so I don't care.

At the end of the day, I'll give the guy credit for actually sticking to his word and doing something about it, unlike our gutless owner.

This isn't going to go anywhere, but kudos to him none the less for trying.

The best we can hope for is that the judge may be sympathetic to the cause so, when he writes the decision tossing this out the case, he takes some shots at NFL/Goodell.

Something to the tune of, "this is an outrage but there's no legal recourse for the fans. Sorry."

 

[Rhodey]

+1

 

[Tony2046]

Slow your roll, Vector. The Plaintiff in the case caption is "New England Patriots Fans", which means you. Stop beating yourself up.

On the upside, the documents may be bounced as a matter of form before reaching the merits given the failure to actually list the individual plaintiffs in interest in the civil cover sheet and case caption (they are listed within the body of the Complaint with a non-legal entity (business or person) in the case caption). A possible opportunity to get off the ride before it gets really ugly. It is good to see Mr. Carey did not include himself as a party, so I doubt he will be paying any bills that may be assessed on the fans he named as parties after garnering his 15 minutes of fame that have already been realized. As a professed "super fan", I am sure he would not abandon these non-lawyer fans and leave them to pay the tab on their own.

He has appeared in three federal cases as an attorney of record to date. Two in Maine (one was his own disciplinary proceeding), one a State case procedurally dragged to federal court (voluntarily dismissed by him) and now this. His legal brief is about 50% a cut and paste of the Wikipedia Deflategate article (without attribution of course and didn't even bother to copy the citations into the body of the text), with a legal argument inferior in quality to many non-attorney briefs I have read over the years.

This may well be a very expensive lesson for the fans involved if this case is bounced as frivolous, as it may well be, because they may have to pay for the other side preparing briefs and showing up at a restraining order hearing (they and their associates will actually spend many hours preparing for briefs and hearings at $500 - $1,000+ per hour). Welcome to the wonderful word of joint and several liability, and the billing rates of multiple New York attorneys affordable only to billionaire defendants, for which you may have to foot the bill as a result of this. A little added salt in the wounds of your poor NFL experiences. I am betting their tab may not be limited to the GoFundMe payments if this goes forward.

I'm sure Mr. Kraft F'd Us explained that to his clients. (Sarcasm)

Steph agrees with your assessment about the quality of his draft.

Brandon E @real_bran_don
@StephStradley Hey Stephanie. What do you think about some Patriots fans filing a lawsuit against the nfl?


Stephanie Stradley ?@StephStradley 2h2 hours ago
Stephanie Stradley Retweeted Brandon E

1. Longest shot even if well drafted; 2. Um, this is not well drafted: https://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/deflate-gate-lawsuit.pdf… #deflategate

 

[Tony2046]

LOL

Thornton cracks me up.

Seth T. Carey @sethtcarey
Thornton- you're the real moron. Watch your mouth or you'll get sued for slander. 2 plaintiffs r doctors. 1 went to Harvard @JerryThornton1

Jerry Thornton ?@jerrythornton1 35m35 minutes ago
Jerry Thornton Retweeted Seth T. Carey

So did the Unabomber. So did you get your law license back?

 

[Jackson 2]

This is embarrassing. I just wish the goober who initiated this "suit" would just go away.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

LOL

Thornton cracks me up.

And how's the puppy?

 

[DaBruinz]

There's nothing affiliated with labor involved here though. Bob Kraft doesn't work for the other 31 owners, they're all partners in the league. It's basically a club. And if every other member of a club decides that they don't like you, and have a legal (by the rules of the club) way to stick it to you, it is not the court's job to start micromanaging how that goes down.

While Kraft doesn't work for the other members of the league, I would think that the members of the league have a legal obligation to treat each-other fairly. Also, we need to remember that it's only 30 other owners. The 31st team is publically owned. I would love to see a copy of the agreement that people who own shares in the Packers get as franchise owners.. This would go a long way to knowing what the owners/league can and cannot do to other teams.

 

[flasox27]

At least this guy is a practicing attorney and member of the bar unlike the moron who is the legal authority for ESPN

 

[Galeb]

At least this guy is a practicing attorney and member of the bar unlike the moron who is the legal authority for ESPN

Have you read the complaints issued against the guy by judges and other attorneys? He probably won't be practicing law much longer.

 

[Tony2046]

At least this guy is a practicing attorney and member of the bar unlike the moron who is the legal authority for ESPN

Munson was a lawyer who lost his license. This guy isn't far behind Munson. He is pretty cheesey.

 

[Jlaff]

While Kraft doesn't work for the other members of the league, I would think that the members of the league have a legal obligation to treat each-other fairly. Also, we need to remember that it's only 30 other owners. The 31st team is publically owned. I would love to see a copy of the agreement that people who own shares in the Packers get as franchise owners.. This would go a long way to knowing what the owners/league can and cannot do to other teams.

My guess is it would be like any other shareholder agreement, where the corporation, and thus the league owe no real substantial duties to the Shareholders over that of the interests of the corporation (of course there are exceptions).

 

[rochrist]

The best we can hope for is that the judge may be sympathetic to the cause so, when he writes the decision tossing this out the case, he takes some shots at NFL/Goodell.

Something to the tune of, "this is an outrage but there's no legal recourse for the fans. Sorry."

There won't be any decision. It'll be tossed for lack of standing without ever being heard.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

There won't be any decision. It'll be tossed for lack of standing without ever being heard.

That's the judge's prerogative. He's free to sound off if he's so inclined. He can write a one sentence decision if he's so inclined. Who knows?

 

[flasox27]

Munson was a lawyer who lost his license. This guy isn't far behind Munson. He is pretty cheesey.

He still has a law license which is more than you can say for the alcoholic disbarred thief working for ESPN. The only mistake he made was filing the suit against the NFL. Otherwise he seems like the perfect type of maleable investigator the NFL needs to replace Wells for the next witch hunt against the Pats.

 

[Jackson 2]

Have you read the complaints issued against the guy by judges and other attorneys? He probably won't be practicing law much longer.

Agreed, because he'll likely be correctly institutionalized. Screwball.

 

[maryk]

I do not normally comment on topics like this, but I just heard him on the D&C show this morning, and it was an embarrassment.

 

[RobertWeathers]

There are many rational, intelligent people from Maine.

Then there is this quack.