Tom Brady suspended again

[varjao]

Time for a walkout

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Unless they posted a revised PDF that deletes those pages, it should be in the back of the decision.

It's not. ESPN has a 33 page link when the one here is 42 pages.. They purposely omitted it....

 

[luuked]

Just to be clear, this is not a ruling on the facts of the case. Any evidence of Brady's wrongdoing is problematic at best, non-existent garbage at worst. The CBA effectively gives the NFL the ability to appoint itself as the arbitrator in a binding arbitration, and the only appeal that can be made as a result of past SCOTUS rulings is based on procedure. So long as the NFL follows the rules its laid out, it can discipline as it wills.

It could throw Brady out of the league, force Rodgers to take a year without pay, and so on, without any particular need to justify its decision-making. As long as it does so using the strict procedures it's given, there's absolutely no legal recourse for the players. That's messed up on a lot of levels, but it's the state of the law and the CBA as it is now.

It just reinforces that in the current climate you have to put _everything_ in writing and don't assume anything anymore no matter how reasonable your assumptions are. The CBA itself would be not that bad under a somewhat reasonable commissioner and a climate where both parties (NFL and NFLPA) are not in a constant cold war.

It really sucks.

 

[pazrul72]

Berman does not. It's remanded to him to have it changed. That's it.

Unless the SCOTUS takes the case.

Ok I heard conflicting things...this is utter ********! I at least had hope that they had remanded it to Berman so he could go after the other poison pills he did not rule on. Mind boggling just absolutely unreal that they ruled you can use One word in a text from 8 months before an incident happened from ANOTHER person to find Someone guilty of that's what you bargined "in good faith". The NFL has proven beyond any question they are soul-less power-hungry immoral lying scum that should never ever for any reason be trusted a micrometer.

 

[ViperGTS]

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Just...wow. Why did the union agree to this garbage?

So an arbiter can make mistakes of facts or LAW? Wow. That's a bombshell. They should have ruled in the exact opposite. So much for the protection of the people.

 

[sb1]

If Goodell wasn't a weak puppet commissioner I'd think there would be a chance that the NFL commissioner would call a presser to confirm the court's ruling and then lift Brady's suspension as a goodwill gesture toward the lack of clear evidence of wrongdoing.

 

[luuked]

It's not. ESPN has a 33 page link when the one here is 42 pages.. They purposely omitted it....

Am sure their Ombudsman is on top of that. /s

 

[BradyFTW!]

Hope he is right.

If Trump wins he will appoint the next SC justice.

I don't think going to the SC will help. Under the current court, it will almost inevitably end in a 4-4 split that will not overturn the appeals court. And either a Clinton or Trump (or Cruz) nominee will be anti-labor, so I don't see any realistic way this case gets in front of a Supreme Court that has any chance of ruling in Brady's favor short of Bernie Sanders winning the presidency and getting a justice confirmed, which... isn't going to happen.

Maybe an en banc appeal right have a shot? I dunno.

 

[363839]

could of been worse if u think about it.
goodell could of given 10 games if he wanted to. cba gives him all power,,

Yes it could have been worse. Apparently, Goodell could have had him hung until half dead, and had his bowels removed and burned before him and then had all his extremities cut off and placed where it pleases the King..errr Goodell.

 

[DefenseRules]

And the ESPN only linked to the majority decision. not Katzmann's dissent...

Why do you put yourself through the hell of tuning into that station? NO Pats fan should EVER WATCH THAT FILTHY STATION AGAIN!

 

[Triumph]

I don't think going to the SC will help. Under the current court, it will almost inevitably end in a 4-4 split that will not overturn the appeals court. And either a Clinton or Trump (or Cruz) nominee will be anti-labor, so I don't see any realistic way this case gets in front of a Supreme Court that has any chance of ruling in Brady's favor short of Bernie Sanders winning the presidency and getting a justice confirmed, which... isn't going to happen.

Maybe an en banc appeal right have a shot? I dunno.

Was Scalia anti labor?

 

[luuked]

So an arbiter can make mistakes of facts or LAW? Wow. That's a bombshell. They should have ruled in the exact opposite. So much for the protection of the people.

Completely unrelated to Brady and everything this sentence there is pretty unsettling..

 

[sb1]

So an arbiter can make mistakes of facts or LAW? Wow. That's a bombshell. They should have ruled in the exact opposite. So much for the protection of the people.

Which is why this could be interesting to SCOTUS should team Brady choose to go that route. I don't think it will go that far though.

 

[archstanton543]

Mind boggling just absolutely unreal that they ruled you can use One word in a text from 8 months before an incident happened from ANOTHER person to find Someone guilty of that's what you bargined "in good faith".

It's one of the big drawbacks of being in an union.

 

[PF_SU]

I thought the US was supposed to be a modern country with a solid legal system?

Win Super Bowl LI and stick the finger to Goodell and his minions.

 

[Gronkowski123]

If Goodell wasn't a weak puppet commissioner I'd think there would be a chance that the NFL commissioner would call a presser to confirm the court's ruling and then lift Brady's suspension as a goodwill gesture toward the lack of clear evidence of wrongdoing.

no chance that ever happens

the judges even ruled on the remaining issues. so much for bermans " bulletproof " case..
all of the lawyers on here ended up being completely wrong...

i wonder if tom will say anything...his offseason has basically been destroyed. all of the wr's/te's need to start working with jimmy G

 

[primetime]

His uncle?

Yeah. Sean Gilbert, I think, the old Ram and Panther.

 

[XLIX]

I don't think going to the SC will help. Under the current court, it will almost inevitably end in a 4-4 split that will not overturn the appeals court. And either a Clinton or Trump (or Cruz) nominee will be anti-labor, so I don't see any realistic way this case gets in front of a Supreme Court that has any chance of ruling in Brady's favor short of Bernie Sanders winning the presidency and getting a justice confirmed, which... isn't going to happen.

Maybe an en banc appeal right have a shot? I dunno.

The entire court doesn't rule on whether to hear the thing. If the USSC decides to hear it - a big if but stay with me - it won't be this year, so it will likely have 9 justices by then.

 

[primetime]

Was Scalia anti labor?

Yes.

 

[archstanton543]

Which is why this could be interesting to SCOTUS should team Brady choose to go that route. I don't think it will go that far though.

Didn't they already rule on this? A baseball case, I think where the arbitrator had virtually all the facts in the case wrong and bungled it badly but the SCOTUS upheld it because of the powers of the arbitrator.