On Thursday morning, Judge Richard H. Kyle transferred the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the NFLPA in the Tom Brady case to New York, where the NFL had initially filed a lawsuit against the NFLPA a day earlier. NFLPA outside counsel Jeffrey Kessler shrugged at the decision.
“It really doesn’t matter to us where the case is,” Kessler told PFT by phone. “What we finally have is a neutral forum. Before a neutral forum, we are very confident in our position.”
Asked about the appointment of the New York case to Judge Richard M. Berman, Kessler said, “We’re very happy to have him.