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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSN v. NFL

No. 15-1438.

831 F.3d 985 (2016)

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION, on its own and ON BEHALF OF Adrian PETERSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE; National Football League Management Council, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 4, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Daniel L. Nash , of Washington, DC. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellant brief; Joseph George Schmitt , of Minneapolis, MN, Peter D. Gray , of Minneapolis, MN, Marla S. Axelrod , of Washington, DC, James Edward Tysse , of Washington, DC, Pratik A. Shah , of Washington, DC, Stacey Eisenstein , of Washington, DC.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Jeffrey L. Kessler , of New York, NY. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellee brief; Barbara Podlucky Berens , of Minneapolis, MN, Steffen Nathanael Johnson , of Washington, DC, David Greenspan , of New York, NY; Angela A. Smedley , of New York, NY; DeMaurice F. Smith , of Washington, DC.

Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

During the 2014 football season, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson indefinitely for "conduct detrimental to ... the game of professional football," and fined Peterson a sum equivalent to six games' pay. Peterson...

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