The National Football League (NFL) has supplanted Major League Baseball (MLB) as the US national pastime in the eyes of many, but is the league engaged in systematic, institutional racism and discrimination at the highest levels?

That's what ex-Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores has alleged in an explosive new lawsuit, seeking not just damages, but court-mandated changes for the very way the league and its teams do business.

What are its strengths? What are its weakness?

If you're going to burn bridges, you might as well nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...in Virtual Legality.

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#NFL #Flores #Lawsuit

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

04:34 The Lawsuit - Overview

18:15 The Lawsuit - The Rooney Rule

30:29 The Lawsuit - Injunctions and Statutes

36:50 The Lawsuit - History Lesson

47:56 The Lawsuit - Statistics and Circumstance

1:07:07 The Lawsuit - Typicality and Class

1:11:19 The Lawsuit - Causes of Action

1:14:17 Conclusion (and Party Statements)

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Discussed in this episode:

ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS

https://theathletic.com/news/former-dolphins-coach-brian-flores-files-discrimination-lawsuit-against-nfl-giants-and-others/B53N44snbIPT/

https://dolphinswire.usatoday.com/2022/02/01/brian-flores-lawsuit-statement/

https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/1488626108983611394

https://dolphinswire.usatoday.com/2022/02/01/the-dolphins-released-a-statement-denying-brian-flores-claims/

THE LAWSUIT

https://www.wigdorlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Complaint-against-National-Football-League-et-al-Filed.pdf

THE LAWS

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_8

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1981

https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/section_1981

https://dhr.ny.gov/sites/default/files/doc/HRL.pdf

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/Title-8-Text-of-the-Law-8-2021.pdf

https://www.nj.gov/oag/dcr/downloads/NJ-Law-Against-Discrimination.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1658

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