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To: scrabblehack

yes, there can be a “gentleman’s agreement” for the Ravens to waive Rice and no one to sign him but for the league to indefinitely suspend him after suspending him for two games would be double jeopardy.

No, that would be collusion.

44 posted on 09/14/2014 7:23:43 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)

To: Straight Vermonter

>>yes, there can be a “gentleman’s agreement” for the Ravens to waive Rice and no one to sign him but for the league to indefinitely suspend him after suspending him for two games would be double jeopardy.
>>>No, that would be collusion. <<<
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Neither. “Double jeopardy” is exclusively a legal concept and only applies to the criminal courts. Collusion is acts by multiple parties specifically to circumvent law.

This would be at most be an arbitrary act by an employer in violation of a collective bargaining agreement (assuming the NFLPA agreement says that once a punishment has been meted out it cannot be then replaced with a worse one — which it probably does).

52 posted on 09/14/2014 9:10:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)

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