The National Football League (NFL) has filed to dismiss Jon Gruden’s lawsuit and according to them, the grounds on Gruden’s lawsuit are baseless and “should be dismissed for failure to state a single viable cause of action.”
ESPN:
The league responded Wednesday to the suit that Gruden filed in district court in Nevada’s Clark County in November. The NFL filed a motion to dismiss the case and also asked the court to stay that motion until it first rules on whether the case should be moved to arbitration.
Gruden resigned as coach of the Raiders in October with more than six seasons remaining on his 10-year, $100 million contract.
He claimed a “malicious and orchestrated campaign” was used by the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell to destroy his career by leaking the old emails that included racist, misogynistic and anti-gay language.
On Oct. 11, the New York Times revealed Gruden sent additional emails using misogynistic and anti-gay language over a seven-year period. He resigned that evening, apologizing again and saying he never meant to hurt anyone.
“Gruden does not, and cannot, dispute that he wrote the published emails. He does not, and cannot, dispute that he sent those emails to multiple parties,” the league’s filing said. “Nor does he claim that they were somehow altered or edited and that the repugnant views espoused in them were not in fact expressed by him. Instead, Gruden filed the instant complaint against the NFL and the commissioner, painting himself as the victim in a fictional story and seeking money through baseless claims against the NFL.”
Gruden has to prove that the NFL conspired to single him out. The only way to do that is to get all the other emails released and see if there is damaging evidence against someone else. That is going to be an uphill climb for Chuky.
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