The role of lawyers, including National Football League general counsel Jeff Pash, in Deflategate played an important part in a federal judge’s decision Thursday to overturn the four-game suspension the NFL had slapped on Tom Brady.
The NFL had suspended the New England Patriots quarterback for allegedly using underinflated footballs—to give Brady a better grip—in a conference championship game last January. In the opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman questioned the fairness of the league’s legal process. The opinion is NFL Management Council v. NFL Players Association, 15 Civ. 5916.
