Question for any legal experts

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

I'm sure this has been discussed at length somewhere but I'm at work and don't have time to search everywhere.

I know the judge will be ruling on whether the NFL violated the CBA, not if Brady and the Pats are innocent. But my question is does the judge have the power to drop the suspension if he finds that not enough proof was provided to merit the penalties in the first place? Could he read the Wells report before Wednesday and just say it's flawed and incomplete and can't be used as a basis for penalties?

Does the CBA give the NFL the power to disclipine freely even if nothing can be proven? And a judge just has to live with it?

 

[RunAmok]

The Judge has at least options:

1) Find that Goodell was within his powers as defined in the CBA and upholds his decision
2) Find that Goodlell violated the CBA (is any number of ways) and vacates the decision
3) Refers things to an independent arbitrator for decision

There might be others but these are the most obvious to me.

 

[XLIX]

(not an expert, but.....)

The NFLPA has advanced the argument that the whole process finding Brady guilty has been flawed. They have talked about the total lack of procedures in place for measuring footballs. That suggests to me that while the judge isn't going to come out and declare Brady innocent for all the world to hear, he could possibly go after the league's faulty "verdict" based on the process by which they arrived at it.

 

[eom]

I am not a legal expert, but I refuse to recuse.
from what I read the judge doesn't rule at all on original issue, just question of process according to both cba + established labor law.
don't forget there's a whole labor law structure built up under the cba, and like a brick wall, grows brick by brick whenever one of these cases gets heard.
supposedly, bricks should blend together.

 

[eom]

probably somewhat relevant

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ntal-vs-equipment-violations-in-brady-vs-nfl/