LAS VEGAS \u2014 The NFL will appeal the\u00a0Nevada Supreme Court’s ruling Monday\u00a0that former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden can proceed with his lawsuit and not go through the league for arbitration.<\/p>\n
The league will request a rehearing from the same court that overturned a prior Nevada Supreme Court panel ruling in May 2024 that the matter could go to arbitration. But in October, Gruden was\u00a0granted a hearing\u00a0by the full court.<\/p>\n
Gruden\u00a0filed a lawsuit\u00a0in 2021 against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, alleging that a \u201cmalicious and orchestrated campaign\u201d to destroy his career by leaking old emails he sent that included racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments that pressured the Raiders to fire him.<\/p>\n
Gruden\u00a0resigned from the Raiders\u00a0in October 2021 and sued the league a month later.<\/p>\n
In 2022,\u00a0the NFL appealed\u00a0to Nevada\u2019s high court after a judge in Las Vegas rejected league bids to dismiss Gruden\u2019s claim outright or to order out-of-court talks through an arbitration process that could be overseen by Goodell.<\/p>\n
The Nevada Supreme Court, in a 5-2 ruling, said that \u201cthe arbitration clause in the NFL Constitution is unconscionable and does not apply to Gruden as a former employee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gruden was an on-air analyst at ESPN from 2011-18 when the emails were sent.<\/p>\n
He was the Raiders’ coach when the team moved in 2020 to Las Vegas from Oakland, California. He\u2019s seeking monetary damages, saying that selective disclosure of the emails and their publication by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times ruined his career and endorsement contracts.<\/p>\n
Gruden coached the Raiders in Oakland from 1998 to 2001, then led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for seven years, winning a Super Bowl title in 2003. He spent several years as a TV analyst for ESPN before being hired by the Raiders again in 2018.<\/p>\n
He later consulted for the New Orleans Saints in 2023. He is now a\u00a0part-owner and consultant\u00a0for the Nashville Kats, a team in the Arena Football One league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The NFL will appeal the\u00a0Nevada Supreme Court’s ruling Monday\u00a0that former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-64861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}