The NFL on Tuesday filed a motion in federal court to compel Brian Flores' class-action lawsuit against the league and several teams, in which he and two other coaches allege racial discrimination in its hiring practices, to arbitration.
The filing was made in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and included redacted contracts for all the coaches who are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit -- Flores, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton. The filing also includes a copy of the NFL's Constitution and Bylaws.
The NFL argued in its filing that all three coaches agreed in their signed contracts to arbitrate any claims against the teams that employed them and that "the NFL Constitution's arbitration provisions to which Plaintiffs agreed expressly cover claims involving two or more member clubs and claims between any coach and any member club -- precisely the case here.