Law360, New York (September 4, 2015, 4:56 PM EDT) -- When U.S. District Judge Richard Berman vacated the arbitration award that imposed a four-game suspension on Tom Brady, it marked the second time that the iconic quarterback persuaded a federal judge to fumble a legal ruling. In 2011, Brady was the lead plaintiff in an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL. The league had declared a bargaining impasse under the National Labor Relations Act, and locked out players in an effort to extract concessions. Undeterred, Brady and other NFL players sued the league in Minnesota's federal district court. In an opinion that faulted the NFL for exercising its rights to exert economic pressure on players, U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson concluded that "the threat of harm shown by the Brady Plaintiffs here, including lost playing time, constitutes irreparable harm."...