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- Updated: April 25, 2016
Tom Brady is slowly running out of legal options after the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals ruled against him on Monday. However, at least one judge involved in the ruling might actually have given Brady a sliver of hope if he decides to appeal.
Judge Robert A. Katzmann, the Chief Judge of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, actually sided with Brady in Monday’s ruling. There were a total of three judges who heard the case and Brady’s suspension was reinstated in a 2-1 vote.
Katzmann sided with Brady and blasted NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in his dissenting opinion.
“The Commissioner exceeded that limited authority when he decided instead that Brady could be suspended for four games based on misconduct found for the first time in the Commissioner’s decision,” Katzmann wrote. “This breach of the limits on the Commissioner’s authority is exacerbated by the unprecedented and virtually unexplained nature of the penalty imposed.”
Katzmann didn’t like that Goodell compared the act of deflating footballs to the act of using steroids, which calls for the …
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