My favorite is the “I’ll donate 15 cents for every retweet this gets” line... ahhh, so you’ll donate, but only if it builds your social media brand. Fuck off.

Yeah, the NCAA sucks, but kinda so does UH here.

That contract allows for legally binding arbitration. Legally binding arbitration in federal cases is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, and has been for almost a hundred years. The NFL collective bargaining agreement is interpreted within the law of the land just like any other contract would be, and those laws…

What’s amazing is that the NFL is so bad at this that they’re getting overturned even under the incredibly broad discretion the CBA gives Goodell. As much discretion as the CBA gives Goodell to make the final decision, it still requires there to be some process, and for the NFL to follow its own rules.

That contract that the NFLPA signed required that Goodell give players a fair, impartial hearing before subjecting them to his power. He (and his arbitrator) did not do that, and that’s why the judge ruled as he did.

The NFL has the right to suspend Elliot, but they’re required to give him a fair hearing before they do so. Whatever else may have happened, it’s clear they didn’t do that, because of course they didn’t.

Never ceases to amaze me that some people who think they are smart talk about contract law like it is the word of god and if you sign anything you are bound by it. Hate to tell you, that you can sign anything but if it violates real laws then its not enforceable. But keep being amazed. People like you are why…

Never ceases to amaze how smart guys on the internet are convinced they know more about the law than a federal judge does...

It’d be really hard to find a Federal Judge willing to accept a bribe. Judges are appointed for life (on good behavior) so they are almost completely politically insulated, needing neither public support nor money for campaigns.

He did lose in court. The NFL was in court to prevent the injunction. They lost.

It was the NFL that set up the process, made the NFLPA agree to it, and then to much acclaim brought in highly qualified people to administer it. Yet on the very first test of their newly agreed upon process, Goodell and the NFL didn’t like the result and essentially said, “Fuck it, let’s suspend him anyways.”…

“...The NFLPA was not given the opportunity to discharge its burden to show that Goodell’s decision was arbitrary and capricious.....”

I mean, fandom aside, it doesn’t take much to find serious errors in the NFL’s disciplinary procedures.

You realize that they still have to abide by that contract, right? The judge here said the NFL egregiously failed to meet their own bare minimum standard, in a way “unmatched by any case this Court has seen.”

He didn’t have to, the NFL screwed up all on its own.

The issue isn’t whether Elliott did it but rather if the NFL had the right to suspend him in the first place.

I skimmed but.....So....I’m not seeing where she reported this to the police. ?

“Mishandled” would seem to imply they were trying to handle it some other way.

Sexual assault is a crime regardless of where it occurs. She should have reported this to the police and asked for protection if she thought that was necessary. She should not rely on her school to deal with the issue.

Flyover Country dismissal by the sports media, in large part.