MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Brian Flores wants NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to make sure his class-action lawsuit against the league and several teams over allegedly racists hiring practices isn’t settled behind closed doors.
Flores said Monday if Goodell truly wants to bring the kind of change the NFL’s top executive has talked about in the wake of the former Miami Dolphins head coach’s unprecedented legal maneuver, then Goodell should make sure the case is adjudicated by a jury of Flores’ peers rather than in arbitration.
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“I think Commissioner Goodell has the influence to do what’s right,” Flores said during a teleconference with lawmakers to speak in favor of the FAIR Act, which would end forced arbitration.