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The court case has nothing to do with whether the balls were deflated purposefully or not. That's not a legal issue. The court case had to do with whether the NFL could suspend a player on the say-so of the commissioner alone, without an impartial appeal process. And Brady won because some judge didn't like the way the collective bargaining agreement was written. It's been overturned because another judge decided that it doesn't matter if it's fair or unfair, it's what the union agreed to. If you don't want an asshat making arbitrary decisions as you sole source of appeal then don't sign a contract that says he is the sole source of appeal.

Regarding the punishment, let's face it the Patriots have gotten away with murder and Goodell covered for them. He burned the spygate tapes and he never punished them for using a second audio channel in Brady's helmet to circumvent the cutoff period rule (and Brady knew about that with 100% certainty so don't give me the stuff about him being a quire boy who never participated in the cheating).

This last episode, though minor, was the straw that broke the camel's back. The pats made Goodell look like their chump one time too many. Ironically, Goodell still looks like a chump but that's because he's an incompetent PC fool, not because of the Patriots.

“Regarding the punishment, let's face it the Patriots have gotten away with murder and Goodell covered for them. He burned the spygate tapes”

I think part of the reason Goodell went after Brady so dishonestly was because of spygate.

But in this case Brady did not do anything illegal. He would not want someone screwing around with the footballs instead of have them consistent.

The Ideal Gas Law and the two different gauges explains the difference in psi.