Smacking Down The Patriots.....

Smacking Down the Patriots……

It is hard because so many people hate the patriots that the chances of finding two judges who don’t hate them is slim to none.

This judge is definitely not a Patriots fan.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/…/brady-suspension-back-on-the…/

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan gave a players’ union lawyer a tough time, with Circuit Judge Denny Chin even saying evidence of ball tampering was “compelling, if not overwhelming,” and there was evidence to support a finding that Brady “knew about it, consented to it, encouraged it.”

“How do we as appellate judges reviewing an arbitrator’s decision second-guess the four-game suspension?” Chin asked attorney Jeffrey Kessler of the NFL Players Association.

The appeals court did not immediately rule, but it seemed to lean heavily at times against the union’s arguments, raising the prospect that the suspension Brady was supposed to start last September before a judge nullified it may begin next season instead.

The appeals panel seemed receptive to the NFL’s argument that it was fair for Commissioner Roger Goodell to severely penalize one of the game’s greatest quarterbacks after concluding he tarnished the game by impeding the league’s investigation into deflated footballs, including destroying a cellphone containing nearly 10,000 messages.

Judge Barrington D. Parker said the cellphone-destruction issue raised the stakes “from air in a football to compromising the integrity of a proceeding that the commissioner had convened.”

“An adjudicator looking at these facts, it seems to me, might conclude that the cellphone had incriminating information on it and that, in the teeth of an investigation, it was deliberately destroyed,” Parker said. “So why couldn’t the commissioner suspend Mr. Brady for that conduct alone?”

“With all due respect, Mr. Brady’s explanation of that made no sense whatsoever,” Parker said.

Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann noted that the fact that commissioners can be confronted with a novel situation might be why the language of the players union’s contract agreement with the league “gives the commissioner broad authority to deal with conduct detrimental” to the game.