Supreme Court Won't Intervene in Discrimination Suit Led by Black Ex-Head Coach Flores Against NFL
The justices left intact a lower court ruling that keeps Flores’ racial discrimination claims in federal court.
- On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court denied the NFL's appeal to dismiss Brian Flores' racial discrimination lawsuit, clearing the way for the case to proceed to trial in federal court.
- Flores, the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, filed the class-action lawsuit in February 2022, alleging the league engages in systemic racial discrimination regarding hiring and promotion practices.
- Attorneys representing Flores, Ray Horton, and Steve Wilks recently issued subpoenas for over 20 years of employment records to 25 NFL teams, broadening the scope of the original allegations.
- The ruling prevents Commissioner Roger Goodell from acting as arbitrator for discrimination claims, forcing the league to face a public trial instead of internal proceedings.
- Data shows the NFL currently has only three Black head coaches in a league where up to 60% of players are Black, while Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has challenged the Rooney Rule.
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Supreme Court won't intervene in discrimination suit led by Black ex-head coach Flores against NFL
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to intervene in a discrimination lawsuit led by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores against the NFL, allowing the case to proceed toward trial.
SCOTUS Just Aided Brian Flores’ Fight For Justice Against The NFL
Source: Sun Sentinel / Getty Perhaps the highest court in the land feels bad for demolishing the Voting Rights Act. Maybe Clarence Thomas remembered he’s Black. Or, maybe even a group of people who are comfortable with doing Donald Trump’s bidding understand just how repugnant the NFL can be. Regardless, victories of this magnitude are rare. A week after Brian Flores, the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, had his attorneys subpoen…
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Supreme Court Lets Brian Flores’ Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against NFL Move Forward
Source: David Berding / Getty The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to step into National Football League defensive coordinator Brian Flores’ ongoing racial discrimination lawsuit against the league, a decision that allows one of the most closely watched employment cases in professional sports to continue moving through the courts. On May 26, the nation’s highest court refused to review a lower court ruling that sided with Flores in his dispute wi…
Will Brian Flores’ suit pull back the curtains on NFL hiring practices?
Brian Flores desires truth and transparency in the National Football League’s head coaching hiring practices. Philosophically, it is what countless job seekers who surmise they have been subjected to discrimination or bias in surreptitious hiring processes also want. On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court helped forward the cause when it denied the NFL’s appeal to dismiss Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit filed in February of 2022 aga…
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