saintfan

A federal magistrate judge has ordered NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to provide the court with documents related to the league's bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints.

The order by Magistrate Daniel Knowles on Tuesday came in response to suspended linebacker Jonathan Vilma's efforts to initiate the discovery process in his defamation case against the commissioner. Vilma has said the NFL has allowed him to review only a fraction of documents related to bounty matter.

Knowles issued a compromise order in which only the court, and not Vilma, may see the documents -- including reports of interviews with witnesses -- before a subsequent order is made on whether to allow discovery to proceed.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said league officials have already discussed the order with Knowles and have agreed to comply.

Judge wants to see NFL bounty documents - ESPN

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C'mon Man...

stickman

Interesting. Still, nothing we'll ever see.

saintsfan1976

Attorneys for the punished players say those two witnesses lack credibility because Williams is suspended indefinitely and his reinstatement hinges on his cooperation, and because Cerullo was fired by the Saints and had a vendetta against the club.

All four of the players are technically eligible to play this weekend because their appeals of their suspensions within the framework of the NFL's labor agreement are pending. Goodell has scheduled their appeal hearings for Oct. 23 and could rule soon afterward.

In the meantime, the players are hoping U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan will ultimately issue a ruling that voids Goodell's decision to suspend the players and order a neutral arbitrator to handle any further discipline in the matter

dizzle88

This is the part where goodell goes oops, you know when we said we had 50,000 pages of proof.......we lied

Danno

Maybe not, if its 3 words per page.

SaintGup

It could well be. I have heard it's written in big crayon and in different colours too!

dizzle88

BREAKING NEWS - Goodell suspends SaintGup for the season for speculating on the documentation of "all" his "evidence" lmao

TXGSP

At least the documents will be "OUT" of sole control by the league. If the judge deems the information important there is little choice other than to release the documents.

Defining the Legal requirements surrounding the documents is going to be interesting.

All the press releases and public statements will definately come back into play if/when this hits a courtroom.

SaintsBro

Exactly, 100%, and that is at the heart of Vilma's defamation suit. The press releases and statements in interviews, the time line of what Goodell said and when he made those statements, in relation to the evidence, and when the evidence was made public, that is truly the heart of Vilma's case. The beauty of it is that evidence MUST BE SHOWN in its entirety, in order to determine whether Goodell was defaming Vilma or not.

AsylumGuido

The evidence has ALREADY been seen in its entirety. Goodell has nothing else. Everything is based upon Cerullo's testimony and handwritten documents provided by none other than Cerullo.

I have little doubt that Cerullo would crumble under cross-examination from Ginsberg.