The NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell formally requested that a judge in Nevada dismiss the lawsuit filed against them by former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. USA Today's Tom Schad reported on the development.
The NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell have formally asked a Nevada judge to throw out the lawsuit filed against them by Jon Gruden. https://t.co/ITXP68YnP4
— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) January 20, 2022
Lawyers representing the NFL and Goodell also asked the judge to send the lawsuit back to arbitration. They stated that the issues Gruden has brought belong in arbitration, per his employment contract.
Gruden came under fire three months ago when e-mails that he sent were released to the media. He used inappropriate language, including misogynistic and homophobic content.
After the e-mails surfaced, Gruden resigned as Raiders head coach shortly thereafter. A month later, he filed a lawsuit claiming that the NFL leaked the e-mails to news outlets in order to have him fired from Las Vegas. His lawyers referred to the situation as a “Soviet-style assassination.”
The NFL has denied any wrongdoing. The league publicly stated that the e-mails were found upon an investigation into workplace misconduct with the Washington Football Team.
The NFL's statement went so far as to say that “he has no one to blame but himself…he does not, and cannot, dispute that he sent those emails to multiple parties. Nor does he claim that they were somehow altered or edited and that the repugnant views espoused in them were not in fact expressed by him.”
After his dismissal, the Raiders were left for dead. Shockingly, the team ended up making a run to the postseason. Ultimately, they were eliminated last week in the Wild Card loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
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