I was delighted to join an amicus brief filed last week by Professor Imre Szalai in the Flores v NFL (and several teams) bemoaning the current state of the NFL arbitration system where Commissioner Roger Goodell has the final say.  You might recall that former coach Brian Flores has sued several NFL teams for racial discrimination in their respective hiring practices.  The courts have split his claims–some teams subject to arbitration and others not–in a way that has both him and the NFL appealing the rulings to the Second Circuit.

The brief from law professors makes the now familiar claim…

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