“Fair or unfair, the NFL should be able to conduct its own investigations and suspend players in the manner it sees fit.”
Not when the NFL has signed a contract saying it CANNOT do those things. Contracts are a part of the law.
“Not when the NFL has signed a contract saying it CANNOT do those things. Contracts are a part of the law.”
But a contract can also spell out that between two parties, one party has the authority to render discipline on the members of the other party. This Judge has held that, in effect, forget what your contract says, I am going to tell you what needs to go down in the relationship between the parties. I am going to define it.
So then, why even have a collective bargaining agreement? Why bother if some Judge can simply not like what it says and impose his or her own standards? Its a tax, its not a tax, sound familiar?