The NFL roundly rejected former Dolphins coach Brain Flores’ push to keep his racial discrimination lawsuit out of arbitration, arguing that the coach and his two co-plaintiffs had agreed to the dispute resolution process in their contracts.
out of arbitration Friday night, arguing in a 14-page brief that the coach and his two co-plaintiffs had agreed to the dispute resolution process in their contracts.
In an argument sure to raise some eyebrows, the league’s lawyers wrote that just because the NFL initially responded that the lawsuit is without merit, that does not mean commissioner Roger Goodell, or his designee, would be unfair arbitrators. Flores contends the NFL can’t arbitrate fairly. “While the NFL did state in a press release that it would ‘defend against [Plaintiffs’] claims, which are without merit,’ that statement represents the NFL’s position as a league,” the motion stated. “Any inference that the Commissioner himself has prejudged this lawsuit is unsupportable.”, is evidence that he can rule against the interest of member clubs.
“Further, the Commissioner and his designees have a long history of rendering decisions at odds with the interests of the NFL’s member clubs, thus rebutting Plaintiffs’ accusations of bias,” the league argued, listing player suspensions from
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