Tom Brady has even more support in his legal fight against the NFL.
The AFL-CIO, the largest labor union federation in the United States, filed an amicus brief Monday backing the New England Patriots quarterback.
The AFL-CIO asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider their decision to reinstate Brady’s four-game suspension handed down by the NFL and upheld by league commissioner Roger Goodell for the Deflategate scandal.
“Even a cursory review of the commissioner’s decision makes clear that he acted in the self-serving role of an employer justifying his own disciplinary decision rather than as a neutral arbitrator considering an appeal,” the AFL-CIO wrote in the brief, via the Associated Press.
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, a long-time arbitrator, also filed an amicus brief Monday.
“If this type of bias or capricious notions of industrial justice are upheld, the public should — and will — lose faith in the systems of arbitration and private dispute resolution that have become a parallel component of our justice system,” Feinberg wrote.
The Patriots filed an amicus brief in support of Brady last week.
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