Flores' attorneys say NFL arbiter stalling case

Attorneys for Minnesota Vikings antiaircraft coordinator Brian Flores and respective different plaintiffs person filed for reconsideration of a tribunal bid that shifted immoderate of their suit against the NFL and aggregate teams to the league's arbitration process.

In a petition filed earlier this week with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Flores -- on with chap coaches Steve Wilks and Ray Horton -- argued that the 2023 bid should beryllium reconsidered based connected an August ruling that recovered insurmountable flaws successful the league's arbitration process. That decision, Flores' attorneys wrote successful this week's filing, "constitutes definitive controlling law" implicit the erstwhile order.

"Any effort by the NFL to further hold and debar litigation of these claims should respectfully beryllium rejected," the attorneys wrote.

Flores sued the NFL and respective teams successful January 2022, aft helium had been fired by the Miami Dolphins arsenic their caput manager and was successful the process of interviewing for different jobs. His archetypal assertion accused the league of being "rife with racism," peculiarly successful its hiring and promotion of Black coaches.

Standard NFL coaching contracts calls for disputes to beryllium settled successful an arbitration organized by the commissioner. Following the 2023 order, commissioner Roger Goodell named Peter C. Harvey arsenic the arbitrator for the issues that had been shifted retired of the lawsuit.

That arbitration process has not progressed since an speech of ineligible briefs successful December 2024, Flores' attorneys said successful their filing this week.

"As such," they wrote, "the full arbitration has been successful a implicit standstill and effectual stay."

Flores spent the 2022 play arsenic an adjunct with the Pittsburgh Steelers earlier joining the Vikings successful 2023. He interviewed for caput coaching positions with the Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets aft the 2024 season, but did not beforehand retired of the archetypal circular of applicants for immoderate of them.

Some of Flores' claims led the NFL to portion the Dolphins of their first-round draught prime successful 2023, among different disciplinary measures, for violations of league policies relating to the integrity of the game. Following a six-month investigation, the league recovered the Dolphins -- chiefly squad proprietor Stephen Ross and vice chairman/limited spouse Bruce Beal -- violated the anti-tampering argumentation connected 3 occasions from 2019 to 2022 successful conversations with backmost Tom Brady and the cause for then-New Orleans Saints manager Sean Payton.