Twitter: Greg Hardy will consult with NFLPA whether to take his suspension to federal court

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Floaty said:
Drew Davison ‏@drewdavison 10m10 minutes ago
In wake of Brady ruling, source says #Cowboys Greg Hardy will consult with NFLPA whether to take his suspension to federal court.
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So if he decides to pursue this, I would expect that he would ask for an injunction to start the season...that would give us Hardy for the difficult start to the season...Worst case is he would lose the federal appeal and would have to serve the four game suspension....If this dragged on to long (which it seemed that the federal response was timely in Brady's case), he could drop the case and serve the suspension if he wanted to be available for the playoff run. Not sure who pays for this, if it is NFLPA, I wouldn't see why you wouldn't challenge it. If it is his personal money, he would have to weigh the pros and cons of appealing it from a financial standpoint.
 
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What happened with the Brady ruling?
 
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DallasInDC said:
So if he decides to pursue this, I would expect that he would ask for an injunction to start the season...that would give us Hardy for the difficult start to the season...Worst case is he would lose the federal appeal and would have to serve the four game suspension....If this dragged on to long (which it seemed that the federal response was timely in Brady's case), he could drop the case and serve the suspension if he wanted to be available for the playoff run. Not sure who pays for this, if it is NFLPA, I wouldn't see why you wouldn't challenge it. If it is his personal money, he would have to weigh the pros and cons of appealing it from a financial standpoint.
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I would expect that he would ask for an injunction as well....and be available opening night vs the Giants ;)
 
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stasheroo said:
I think it would be all or nothing, like Brady's.
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I don't think so, based on how Brady's was ruled. Judge Berman even noted the suspensions of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson being capped at 2 games due to notice of the Player Conduct policy being proper, which is where this case ran afoul for the NFL.

Hardy is looking at 2 games max based on Peterson, Rice, and now Brady under notice and prior precedent. I would also argue that the exempt list term from the previous year serves as constructive suspension and that the entirety of Hardy's suspension should be vacated, but that's a new argument that does not have any persuasive case law to point to.

tl;dr -- I think in light of Brady, Hardy should be capped at 2 (plus Peterson/Rice rulings). With a little extra lawyering, maybe 0 games.
 
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stasheroo said:
I think it would be all or nothing, like Brady's.
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Hope your right but somehow I would think they would look at this a little differently given the charges. Not saying it's right or wrong but your looking at significant assault charges vs. deflating the air from football. I can see some impartial outside pressure on the judge which could theoretically come from his own wife.
 
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