An arbitrator has to screw up big time before a court can overturn a ruling, an attorney for the NFL argued in DeflateGate papers filed in Manhattan federal court Monday.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, league lawyer Daniel L. Nash acknowledged that while courts have the authority to vacate arbitration awards in “extraordinary circumstances,” none of those circumstances “are present here.”
The NFL Players Association submitted to Berman last week a list of 19 decisions from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Southern District of New York in which arbitrators’ decisions were tossed.