"The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected the NFL's petition seeking a rehearing of an August decision that said former Raiders coach Jon Gruden could not be forced into league arbitration in his lawsuit alleging the league leaked damaging emails to the media before he resigned from the team in 2021. All seven justices signed the order rejecting the league's petition for a rehearing."
"In August, by a 5-2 ruling, Nevada's high court did not determine whether the league had leaked Gruden's emails. But a majority of justices found that the league's decision to force his complaint into arbitration proceedings overseen by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell -- the target of Gruden's civil lawsuit -- was "unconscionable." As a former employee, Gruden should not have been bound by the provision in the NFL constitution mandating arbitration for such complaints, the court ruled."
Nevada's Supreme Court unanimously rejected the NFL's petition for a rehearing and left the August decision intact that Gruden could not be compelled into league arbitration. A 5-2 August majority had found the league's effort to force arbitration overseen by Commissioner Roger Goodell unconscionable because the NFL Constitution no longer binds former employees. The justices wrote that binding former employees would let the Commissioner pick which disputes to arbitrate. The NFL's remaining legal option is an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Gruden alleges Goodell and the league leaked emails containing racist, sexist and anti-gay comments to pressure the Raiders to fire him.
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