MTZehvor on 03 September 2015
| Arkaign said: At the same time, the ruling is kind of shady, and spells major problems for discipline in the NFL if they allow this to stand : Essentially what the judge said on this is that because there wasn't a specific penalty/rule for punishment for the specific offense alleged in this situation, that the NFL had no authority to dole out anything on the matter. In essence, it's like if one of your kids got drunk, stole your car and then wrecked it, but if you had no rule that you had established before about that, then you couldn't ground them. |
Sort of, yeah. But think about that from a legal standpoint.
Suppose, for instance, you get caught speeding. As a result, you're sentenced to five years in jail. You'd have every lawyer in the world signing up to handle an appeal case on that. There has to be some kind of standard for punishment set in place. You can't just arbitrarily fine someone $50 and sentence another person to jail for the same crime. Even if it sounds tedious, there needs to be clearly defined standards for punishment.
Setting aside whether Brady's innocent or not, the idea of working for an employer who can just make up punishment as they see fit with no precedent is kind of scary.
