{"id":663830,"date":"2026-05-25T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663830\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:19:09","slug":"brian-flores-amends-complaint-against-nfl-subpoenas-31-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663830\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Flores Amends Complaint Against NFL, Subpoenas 31 Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores* recently amended his lawsuit<\/a> against the NFL and six of its teams to include a Title VII claim, and now he has amended it again. Per Daniel Kaplan of Front Office Sports<\/a>, Flores has added a new retaliation count.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The nature of the allegation is presently unclear, but based on the NFL\u2019s response, it appears Flores is arguing the league\u2019s effort to enforce the arbitration provisions in its contracts is itself retaliatory. If that\u2019s the case, sports attorney Chris Deubert tells Kaplan it \u201cmakes no sense,\u201d and Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk<\/a> concedes it will be difficult to prove.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Flores has scored a series of key wins in this long-running saga, and he is striking while the iron is hot. The trial court has allowed his claims against all six teams (the Giants, Broncos, Texans, Dolphins, Titans, and Cardinals) to proceed to trial rather than remain in the NFL\u2019s arbitration system, and the trial court has also allowed the case to move forward as normal even as the NFL seeks United States Supreme Court review of that issue.<\/p>\n

Allowing the case to move forward includes lifting the stay on discovery, so in addition to the amended complaint, Flores has subpoenaed 31 of the NFL\u2019s 32 teams, as Kaplan details (presumably, only the Vikings have not been subpoenaed). ESPN\u2019s Kris Rhim<\/a> adds Flores has served more than 1,000 discovery requests, which the league has argued are punishingly overbroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re obviously going scorched-earth,\u201d Deubert said. \u201cPresuming he\u2019s asking about their employment hiring practices and policies, and even that can be difficult to just to respond to. \u2026 But those teams are probably going to object to the subpoenas, probably collectively through the league-friendly counsel, and say it\u2019s not relevant, and there\u2019ll be an interesting sort of fight there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defendants will file a motion to dismiss in response to the latest amended complaint. As Rhim notes, the deadline for that is June 5. Pretrial briefs are due in late July\/early August. A trial date likely will not be set until after the court rules on the motions to dismiss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

*Steve Wilks and Ray Horton are Flores\u2019 co-plaintiffs, but for ease of reading, we will simply use Flores\u2019 name when referring to the plaintiffs\u2019 side of this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores* recently amended his lawsuit against the NFL and six of its teams to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1829,71437,7820,4058,1322,8851,977,349,282335,99,137432,8853],"class_list":["post-663830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-brian-flores","tag-denver-broncos","tag-houston-texans","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-ray-horton","tag-sports","tag-steve-wilks","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}