Gruden Sues NFL Over Publication Of Offensive Emails

Former Las Vegas Raiders manager Jon Gruden has sued Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL, alleging that a “malicious and orchestrated campaign” was utilized to destruct Gruden’s vocation by leaking aged violative emails helium had sent.

The suit was filed successful territory tribunal successful Clark County, Nevada, connected Thursday, precisely a period aft Gruden resigned arsenic Raiders manager pursuing the work of his emails by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

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The emails sent to erstwhile Washington Football Team enforcement Bruce Allen from 2011 to 2018 during Gruden’s clip arsenic an announcer astatine ESPN included racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments. They came from a acceptable of 650,000 emails obtained by the league successful June during an probe into the workplace civilization of the Washington Football Team.

Gruden’s attorney, Adam Hosmer-Henner, said successful a connection that the defendants “selectively leaked Gruden’s backstage correspondence to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times successful bid to harm Gruden’s estimation and unit him retired of his job.”

“In opposition to the formalities of the Washington Football Team investigation, Defendants’ attraction of Gruden was a Soviet-style quality assassination,” the suit alleges. “There was nary informing and nary process. Defendants held the emails for months until they were leaked to the nationalist media successful the mediate of the Raiders’ play successful bid to origin maximum harm to Gruden.”

NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy denied the charges.

“The allegations are wholly meritless and the NFL volition vigorously support against these claims,” McCarthy said.

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The Wall Street Journal reported connected Oct. 8 that Gruden utilized a racist word to picture NFL national main DeMaurice Smith.

The suit says that NFL pressured the Raiders to occurrence Gruden aft the merchandise of that email and “intimated that further documents would go nationalist if Gruden was not fired.”

Gruden coached 2 days aboriginal and past connected Oct. 11 the New York Times revealed further violative emails. Gruden past resigned little than halfway done the 4th twelvemonth of his 10-year, $100 cardinal declaration with the Raiders.

Raiders proprietor Mark Davis said past period that helium had reached a colony with Gruden implicit the last six-plus years of his contract. Davis did not uncover the presumption of the settlement.

The suit said Gruden mislaid a sponsorship woody with Skechers and was pulled from appearing successful the Madden NFL 2022 video game, arsenic good arsenic having aboriginal employment and endorsement prospects damaged.

Gruden is seeking unspecified damages connected 7 claims, arsenic good arsenic punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.

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