Adrian Peterson v. NFL: The Adults Take Charge

What a difference a year makes. In 2015, Jeff Kessler and the NFLPA had used litigation to reform the NFL-NFLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CBA”). Binding arbitration before the NFL Commissioner was apparently no longer binding, and aggrieved players could scoot to court and have a sympathetic federal judge impose his own brand of industrial justice on the parties, indifferent to the bargained-for agreement. In Adrian Peterson v. NFL, U.S. District Court Judge David Doty set aside the