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January 05, 2024
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and two other former NFL coaches lost their bid to have the Second Circuit hear an appeal of a lower court's order to compel arbitration of portions of their racial discrimination lawsuit, after a New York federal judge rejected the request.
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September 06, 2023
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and his co-plaintiffs have asked that the Second Circuit hear their appeal of a lower court's ruling to compel arbitration for portions of their racial discrimination complaint against the NFL, describing the league's arbitration process as "utterly biased.''
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August 22, 2023
The National Football League, the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos and the Houston Texans have filed an appeal in former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores' race bias suit, asking the Second Circuit to reverse a decision not to compel arbitration of Flores' claims.
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July 25, 2023
A New York federal judge on Tuesday declined to disturb her decision that former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores' race bias claims against the NFL can remain on the docket while two other former coaches must arbitrate, reasoning that the league didn't show that Flores entered a binding agreement to keep the allegations out of court.
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July 05, 2023
There are plenty of sports and betting legal matters to watch as the second half of 2023 begins, including those revolving around name, image and likeness rights for college athletes and the legal liability of celebrities like Shaquille O'Neal and Tom Brady who endorse cryptocurrency platforms. Here, Law360 looks at the top sports and betting cases the legal world will be watching in the second half of 2023.
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May 05, 2023
The attorneys general of New York and California recently launched an investigation into potential discrimination and harassment in the NFL’s offices, but the probe isn't the first time the league has come under legal fire over allegations that its work culture is toxic. Here, Law360 looks at four pending cases against the NFL that center on workplace bias.
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April 24, 2023
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores was bound by his contracts to coach teams in the National Football League and, thus, bound by those contracts' arbitration clauses, regardless of his claims that their enforcement powers are "illusory,'' the NFL has told a New York federal judge overseeing Flores' racial discrimination class action against the league.
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April 12, 2023
The National Football League should not be allowed to enforce "unconscionable contracts" to keep parts of Brian Flores' dispute in arbitration — with Commissioner Roger Goodell as the arbitrator — and out of federal court, Flores and his co-lead plaintiffs have told a New York federal judge overseeing their racial discrimination class action against the league.
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April 03, 2023
The NFL has told a federal judge that she was correct in sending parts of a racial discrimination class action against the league to arbitration last month, claiming that in their motion to reconsider the ruling, former NFL coaches Brian Flores, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton "rehash the same arguments that they have already made and that this court already considered and rejected.''
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March 22, 2023
A dozen law professors have asked permission to file an amicus brief supporting former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores in his racial discrimination case against the NFL, saying the judge should reconsider her ruling compelling arbitration for some of his claims because allowing NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to decide them is "unconscionable.''