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NFL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION v. NFL

No. 17-40936.

874 F.3d 222 (2017)

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION, agent of on its own behalf and on behalf of Ezekiel Elliott, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE; National Football League Management Council, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed October 12, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Kessler , Jonathan J. Amoona , David Louis Greenspan , Angela A. Smedley , Winston & Strawn, L.L.P., New York, NY, David Folsom, Esq. , Jackson Walker, L.L.P., Texarkana, TX, Steffen Nathanael Johnson, Esq. , Winston & Strawn, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Thomas M. Melsheimer , Winston & Strawn, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, David T. Moran , Jackson Walker, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Rebekah Ricketts , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Andrew S. Tulumello , Senior Litigation Attorney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Paul D. Clement , Subash S. Iyer , Michael Dallas Lieberman , Erin Murphy , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, John Eric Gambrell , Patrick G. O'Brien , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Daniel L. Nash , Nathan Joshua Oleson , Pratik A. Shah , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: PRADO, ELROD, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.

On August 31, 2017, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) filed a complaint in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on behalf of Ezekiel Elliott, a running back for the Dallas Cowboys, seeking a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of a forthcoming six-game suspension by the National Football League...

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