Recently, the NFL experienced a revolutionary piece of litigation intended to implement an expressive and needed modification in the head-coaching appointment and firing off the league’s 32 teams. The NFL aims to deter the entire scenario from a sovereign, civic tribunal into a secret kangaroo court.
In a public case management strategy and forecast order submitted on Thursday by the parties, the league, along with the many teams that have been termed in the case, express an intent to put a file to induce arbitration or a movement to fire for failure to state a claim.
Attorney Doughas H. Wigdor and John Elefterakis said that “From our early talk, we are suggesting that if the NFL wishes for change, the first key is to permit for transparency said from the opening that if the NFL needs to produce change, the first step is to allow for transparency.”
The NFL’s effort to implement these claims to arbitration proves a unique wish to avoid any civic accountability and guarantee that these claims are filed behind closed doors in a platform stacked against our customers. We will contest this appeal in court, but Mr. Goodell should go for the right thing, unapproved arbitration overall, and permit this state to be tried before a bench on behalf of the community, like those watching football tournament.”
In cases against the league or its teams, the NFL regularly raises an arbitration process that classically calls for its claims to be fixed in a private arbitration by Commissioner Roger Goodell or his designee. No one can get a fair hearing in a case taken against the NFL or contrary to one or more team members who pay and compensate the Commissioner.
The NFL continues with this exercise because, just like many American employers, the league hates the impression of public accountability for possible misconduct. Likewise, l many American employers, the NFL appreciates that a private arbitration procedure is far less expected to consequence in the decision a jury of ordinary people would execute against the group and its teams.
Any firm that does the exact thing by its workforce should have no doubts about protecting itself in an open, civic court contrary to any rights. The NFL desires to have every sole right ever made against it be fixed in a procedure that is both intrinsically secret and essentially rigged. What are the things showing whether the NFL trusts the league and its players does the true thing by its existing or previous employees?
This decision is to be rendered by the court of civic belief, and nothing is there that NFL can ensure to control that consequence.
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