A hearing in a lawsuit filed by former Raider coach John Gruden against the NFL and its leader, Roger Goodell, is scheduled for May 25, the report says.
According to ESPN, the oral debate on whether the case should be allowed to continue will be chaired by Judge Nancy Alf in Nevada.
Gruden sent the league emails he said were “selectively leaked” to ruin his NFL career.
The former coach filed a lawsuit in November after private emails were leaked online showing him making racist remarks about the NFL Players Association member.
DeMaurice Smith, NFLPA Chief Executive Officer (Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
“The complaint states that the defendants selected Gruden’s private letter to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to tarnish Gruden’s reputation and force him to quit his job,” Gruden’s attorney, Adam Hosmer-Henner, said in a statement.
“Out of the 650,000 emails collected in the NFL’s investigation into the Washington football team, there is no explanation or justification for why only Gruden’s emails were made public, or why the emails were withheld for several months before they were made public at the height of the raiders season,” the lawsuit said. .
Former Las Vegas Raiders coach John Gruden (Chris Unger/Getty Images)
In January, the NFL filed a lawsuit asking a Nevada court to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the lawsuit was “unjustified” and “should be dismissed because it did not present a valid reason for the action.”
The NFL insisted that, under the terms of its contract, it must resolve complaints through the NFL’s arbitration policy, not through the courts.
Source: Breitbart
