Jon Gruden continues to pile up the Ws towards the NFL.
The Nevada Supreme Court docket selected Thursday to unanimously reject the NFL’s petition to rehear its earlier resolution granting discovery to Gruden in his lawsuit towards the league for allegedly leaking his emails, Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN reported on Thursday. Now the final authorized resort remaining for the NFL is an attraction to the USA Supreme Court docket, which is seen as doubtless, Van Natta provides.
Again in August, Nevada’s excessive courtroom dominated in a 5-2 vote that the Gruden lawsuit needed to be litigated in courtroom and that Gruden couldn’t be compelled into league arbitration as a substitute (full details here). Now on Thursday, the Nevada Supreme Court docket has this time determined by a 7-0 vote to disclaim the NFL’s petition for a rehearing of the choice.
Public litigation might doubtlessly be damaging for the NFL because of the nature of the invention course of. Discovery is a pretrial part during which the events to a lawsuit could get hold of proof from each other. On this occasion, discovery might result in each Gruden and the general public at giant receiving entry to doubtlessly damaging supplies associated to the NFL’s investigation into the Washington Commanders in 2019 (which initially uncovered the Gruden emails).
Now 62 years outdated, Gruden resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders in 2021 after old emails in which he used highly offensive language went public. These emails got here from the interval of 2011-18 and had been despatched to then-Washington common supervisor Bruce Allen. The NFL uncovered the emails as part of their investigation into the Commanders over an allegedly poisonous office setting.
Gruden then proceeded to sue the NFL, claiming that they deliberately leaked the emails so as to pressure him out of his job. The league has been trying to maintain the matter confined to arbitration for years now, but they have gotten rebuffed at every single turn (from the district courtroom degree all the way in which as much as the state Supreme Court docket). Now the NFL will apparently attempt once more with a last-ditch attraction to the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
Lately, Gruden serves as a media character for Barstool Sports activities and has recently even been eyeing the potential of coaching in college football. However with the NFL presumably seeking to keep away from discovery in any respect prices, it appears likelier now within the midst of all these authorized defeats for them that they are going to be pushed to settle the lawsuit with Gruden (presumably paving the way in which for him to return to teaching within the NFL).
