The National Football League has given a preview of the legal strategy it will use to try and overturn the decision that eliminated the four-game suspension given to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady as part of the “Deflategate” saga.
League attorney Daniel Nash filed a “pre-argument statement” with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals today and laid out issues he intends to argue in order to have U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman’s decision reversed
Nash wrote there are three issues: Berman used the wrong federal law to overturn the decision, he made a mistake by disagreeing with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s “interpretation of the CBA, analysis of prior arbitration precedent, and findings of fact,” and he shouldn’t have challenged Goodell’s rulings on certain pieces of evidence.