NFLPA requests order to block any Ezekiel Elliott suspension

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The NFLPA filed a request for a temporary restraining order in the Eastern District of Texas, calling for the courts to block any suspension of Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott upheld by NFL arbitrator Harold Henderson, according to a court filing obtained by ESPN.


The NFLPA's filing calls for the court to vacate any suspension of Elliott, accusing the league's appeals process of being "fundamentally unfair" and citing new facts revealed during this week's hearing that wrapped up Thursday. Elliott has been suspended for six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy.


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  • [h=2]Source: Top investigator favored no Elliott ban[/h]The NFL's director of investigations testified in the hearing on the appeal of Ezekiel Elliott's six-game suspension on Tuesday that she would not have recommended discipline for the Cowboys running back based on what she found, a source told ESPN.

</aside>A source told ESPN's Josina Anderson that Elliott's side will file more paperwork Friday.


"[We] have to file another set of papers formally seeking the temporary, which will happen later today. Hearing for temporary order likely Tuesday after Harold [Henderson] rules," the source said.


If Henderson rules that Elliott should remain suspended for any stretch of games, the court then can decide to stay the suspension while it reviews the matter, and Elliott could potentially be allowed to play while the case works its way through the courts.


In the filing, the NFLPA alleges "there was a League-orchestrated conspiracy by senior NFL executives ... to hide critical information -- which would completely exonerate Elliott" in his domestic violence case.


"During the course of the past 13 months and culminating in the last three days of the appeal process, we have witnessed some of the most egregious violations of legal due process in connection with the NFL's investigation of Mr. Elliott," read a statement from Elliott's attorneys Frank Salzano and Scott Rosenblum.
 

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Starting to think that one of two things will happen


(1) Suspension reduced to two games

(2) He plays every game this season and lawsuit settled next year
 

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Nick sabin is behind this, just like he had Ole Miss bombed, if you beat sabin, he comes after you..!!
 

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Sounds like the same stuff Brady was claiming, Roger knows the players gave him the authority to be prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner. The contract that the players' union agreed to essentially created a monarchy. All the power vests with Roger, he can literally do as he pleases

I think the players were naive enough to think he would be fair and reasonable in these processes, after all this is America. But Roger doesn't give a shit about due process, he just does what he wants when he wants and why he wants.

The players cannot give him the same powers with their next contract, there will be a strike
 

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