09-03-2015, 01:49 PM
(09-03-2015, 10:55 AM)leftcoast link Wrote:Can any of the Cardboard legal folks comment on why the courts would choose to intervene in a case like this? It seems to me that the NFL should have the right under the negotiated CBA to suspend players as they see fit but I'm not a lawyer.
The article first linked here about Brady winning doesn't really contain much legal reasoning.
The actual judgement is available to read.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documen...ension.pdf
My reading of the critical issues in the mind of the judge is that he cared most about which part of the CBA any possible violation would be subject. The league claimed that Brady's offense fell under the clause of a "threat to the integrity of the game" and therefore subject to penalties that include suspension whereas Brady claimed that any possible violation came would come under the clause describing violations of rules on a players' uniform or equipment and thus would be subject only to fines.
At the least, the judge decided that the league didn't make it's case for the former.