Posted on 11/28/2014 6:48:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
Rice had been suspended since Sept. 8 following the public disclosure of a videotape that showed Rice striking his then-fianceé in an Atlantic City elevator. Rice had been suspended for two games prior to the release of the videotape, but in the wake of public outrage — Rice knocked Janay Palmer unconscious with a punch — the NFL suspended Rice indefinitely.
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It doesn’t bring adulation, the public gives adulation. Shame on the public.
Keep in mind that there are actually three different considerations and points of view here from a legal/disciplinary standpoint:
1. The criminal justice system, through which Rice was allowed to cop a plea, would not face any jail time, and would have his record expunged if he completed a pre-trial intervention program.
2. The National Football League, which has some authority to discipline a player but learned today (as I predicted months ago) that this authority is not unlimited. The relationship between the NFL and individual players is governed by a collective bargaining agreement, and under the terms of that agreement the NFL is seriously constrained by what they can do to discipline a player who is physically capable of playing.
3. Individual NFL teams, who are the ones who actually sign contracts with their players and who actually serve as the players' employers (not the NFL).
Point #3 is critical here because even if the NFL cannot suspend a player indefinitely (again, I pointed this out months ago), an NFL team has a lot of latitude in canceling a player's contract for a number of reasons.
The arbiter today ruled that the NFL cannot suspend Rice indefinitely. Today's ruling does not, however, require the Baltimore Ravens to reinstate him. They cut him several weeks after this story began getting a lot of attention, and they have no obligation to put him back on their roster.
“the players union is shown for what it is....for covering up and excusing criminal and immoral behavior...
You need not cite the “players” union, this is common in all unions.
Where's the passion to get Pete Rose reinstated in Baseball? All the man did was gamble, and NOT on his own team yet he's banned for life, his records don't exists anymore....
Waiting for you to start a campaign about that one.
Actually, I believe firing him, and therefore cutting off his wife from 25 million dollars, was probably incentive enough for other wives to keep quiet.
So much for the nfl public announcements/commercials they run during the games about domestic violence. Must not apply to the nfl, just us peons.
And i guess his wife is willing to get smacked around a couple of times a year to support her life style.
Sorry to disagree. One very idiotic event shouldn’t cost a person millions, particularly when the other party forgave him. The only entity that should be able to so that is the legal system: courts. Fortunately the arbitrator agreed the punishment didn’t fit the crime.
Prosecutorial discretion decided not to prosecute.
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His then fiancee’ (now wife) did not file charges against him. What else could a DA do?
Unlikely that some NFL team would pick him up, with only a month or so left in the season.
Must have been that touchy-feely interview designed to make him seem truly repentant and not a violent woman beater...
Why? They welcomed Michael Vick back. So the precedent is set. People don’t watch football or buy tickets to the game worrying about the “character” of the players. They are mostly thugs ... Where’s the surprise?
Never said the Ravens would have to re-instate Ray Rice. I only said that Ray Rice will eventually get his money for the entire current season. If not for the NFL adding to the original punishment, Ray Rice would still be playing.
Just look at what is happening with the Penn State v. NCAA case. The NCAA is going to lose; and lose BIG.
The arbitrator in the Ray Rice case said the NFL office officials, and Goodell in particular, lied during the arbitration hearing.
Actually, the NFL attempted to minimize and excuse Rice's criminal behavior until public pressure "encouraged" the NFL to attempt to impose harsher punishment.
Rice won’t get any money. He was cut from the team before the original suspension was served. The judge “vacated” the second suspension, but that’s got nothing to do with his team cutting him. Unless he can show that some other team would have picked him up the best he’s got is an end to his suspension, and a big ol PR mess for any team dumb enough to pick up an aging RB that was clearly on the down side of his career.
Rice will get paid for the season. All he has to do is demonstrate that he was cut only because of public pressure and pressure from the NFL.
If the Ravens don’t pay him, he will sue and win big if it goes to trial. The Ravens and the NFL cannot risk a trial and will settle for at least what he would have been paid this year; and possibly much more.
If the Raven’s try to withhold any of his guaranteed signing bonus (if any more is due), Rice will get that, too. Rice’s potential claims could include a federal wage claim for withheld pay, which would at least double what he is owed.
No he won’t. Public pressure wouldn’t do it. And there was no reason for the NFL to pressure the Ravens, they punished Rice.
The NFL has non-guaranteed contracts (unless specified individually), a team can cut a player any time and pay them nothing. It was fully within the Raven’s right to cut him, and they won’t pay him a dime that wasn’t in a guarantee clause. He can sue all he wants, he’ll lose. He was signed to an at will contract that one party had the ability to void at any time for any reason.
They’ll pay off, and probably already paid off, anything guaranteed. Anything else is gone. Just like any other cut player. He has no more wage claim than when the Redskin cut McNabb, not one penny.
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