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US Soccer and USWNT players respond to each other’s requests for summary judgment

Following up from US Soccer and the women’s national team players filing motions for summary judgment, both sides have now responded to each other’s filings. There’s not anything particularly new here in terms of arguments - which we’ll get to in a moment - but there is a sense that both sides are wearying of this back-and-forth as their legal documents grow more and more tense.

In their original requests for summary judgment (basically where you ask the court to pick your side before you have to deal with a trial), USSF hammered on a couple of key points, like that they’ve paid some WNT players more total than the MNT, that the WNT asked for the CBA they got so they can’t claim that payment under that CBA is unfair, and that the MNT have different skills (i.