The Nevada Supreme Court docket has spoken. Once more.
On Monday, the courtroom rejected former Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s request for reconsideration of the ruling that ordered his claims in opposition to the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell to arbitration. Gruden’s solely remaining transfer is to ask the U.S. Supreme Court docket to take up the case.
Good luck with that. Even when they take it (they usually seemingly received’t), rely on a 6-3 ruling that Gruden is required to submit the case to arbitration presided over by one of many folks he has sued.
The case arises from Gruden’s pressured resignation in October 2021, days after somebody started leaking emails he despatched to former Washington government Bruce Allen. The emails created a groundswell for Gruden’s ouster. Gruden’s case centered on the selective weaponization of supposedly confidential emails from the investigation into the Washington franchise by somebody within the pretty small universe of people that had entry to the supplies.
If Gruden takes the case to the Supreme Court docket, the trouble to succeed in the deserves of the dispute will proceed to be delayed. In some unspecified time in the future, he’ll must take his possibilities earlier than the key, rigged, kangaroo courtroom that the league has developed each to manage the adjudication of all claims made in opposition to it by non-player staff — and extra importantly to maintain all of it secret.
Secrecy is important to the league. For instance, even when it manages to reverse final week’s huge verdict within the Sunday Ticket class motion, issues got here to mild that the NFL would have most well-liked to maintain at nighttime.
Even if the protection of the case by many shops was missing, to say the least, the reality stays that the mere act of getting the dispute unfold in open courtroom allowed anybody who bothered to note to study that, sure, the NFL intentionally rigged for years the pricing of Sunday Ticket, overcharging those that have been keen to pay the worth and depriving those that weren’t of the choice to look at video games aside from these supplied by their native CBS or Fox associates.
Though the league has benefited from the media’s malaise relating to connecting the dots for customers, few if any of the small print would have been publicly identified if the league had the silver bullet of necessary arbitration at its disposal.
In Gruden’s case, somebody linked to the league workplace or certainly one of its groups determined to take out Jon Gruden by handing these emails to the Wall Avenue Journal and the New York Instances. Until Gruden manages to persuade a Supreme Court docket that’s already stacked in opposition to him to undo the Nevada ruling, the general public won’t ever know the reply to that query.
Some would say we don’t have the correct to know the inside workings of a non-public enterprise. Others would say that, so long as that non-public enterprise depends on the general public at giant to devour its product and to pay for its stadiums, we completely have a proper to know.
Our proper to know is enhanced by the truth that it occurred throughout soccer season, essentially undermining the integrity of the 2021 marketing campaign by all of a sudden leaving one of many NFL’s 32 groups with out its head coach.
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