Analysis: Examining the Federal Judge’s Thinking in NFL Drug Testing Case

By Robert J. Romano, Esq.   Minnesota Vikings’ Kevin Williams and Pat Williams and New Orleans Saints’ Charles Grant, Deuce McAllister and Will Smith were each suspended for four games after testing positive for the banned substance bumetanide, an ingredient found in the dietary supplement StarCaps. Bumetanide in know to be and can be used as a masking agent for anabolic steroids.   The players’ defense was that bumetanide was not a listed ingredient in StarCaps and that StarCap