Nev. court rejects NFL plea for Gruden rehearing

The Nevada Supreme Court connected Thursday unanimously rejected the NFL's petition seeking a rehearing of an August determination that said erstwhile Raiders manager Jon Gruden could not beryllium forced into league arbitration successful his suit alleging the league leaked damaging emails to the media earlier helium resigned from the squad successful 2021.

All 7 justices signed the bid rejecting the league's petition for a rehearing.

The past ineligible edifice near for the NFL is an entreaty for the U.S. Supreme Court, which sources with cognition of the concern person told ESPN is likely. A league spokesperson declined to remark Thursday night.

In August, by a 5-2 ruling, Nevada's precocious tribunal did not find whether the league had leaked Gruden's emails. But a bulk of justices recovered that the league's determination to unit his ailment into arbitration proceedings overseen by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell -- the people of Gruden's civilian suit -- was "unconscionable."

As a erstwhile employee, Gruden should not person been bound by the proviso successful the NFL constitution mandating arbitration for specified complaints, the tribunal ruled.

"By its ain unambiguous language, the NFL Constitution nary longer applies to Gruden," the justices wrote successful the decision. "If the NFL Constitution were to hindrance erstwhile employees, the Commissioner could fundamentally prime and take which disputes to arbitrate."

Gruden's suit alleges that Goodell and the league pressured the Raiders to occurrence Gruden by leaking emails containing racist, sexist and anti-gay comments sent by Gruden erstwhile helium was an on-air expert astatine ESPN.

Gruden resigned from the Raiders successful November 2021. He was their manager erstwhile the squad moved to Las Vegas from Oakland successful 2020.

Gruden is seeking monetary damages, alleging that selective disclosure of the emails and their work by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times ruined his vocation and endorsement contracts.

Gruden's attorney, Adam Hosmer-Henner, said Thursday that "we're evidently pleased with the decision." Gruden was unavailable for comment.

In August, aft the Nevada Supreme Court decision, Gruden told ESPN that the selectively leaked emails, which contained anti-gay and racist remarks astir Goodell and different league figures, disrupted the Raiders' 2021 season, forcing proprietor Mark Davis to question his resignation erstwhile the squad was 3-1.

"I'm looking guardant to having the information travel retired and I privation to marque definite what happened to maine doesn't hap to anyone else," Gruden told ESPN. "What happened wasn't close and I'm gladsome the tribunal didn't fto the NFL screen it up."