"The Complaint -- Jon Gruden's attempt to wrongly blame the NFL and its Commissioner for the consequences of the racist, misogynistic, and homophobic emails Gruden authored and widely distributed -- hinges solely on unsupported allegations that fail as a matter of law or fall far short of stating a claim, and should have been promptly dismissed when the NFL Parties first so moved."
"Gruden does not and cannot dispute that he wrote the emails that led to his resignation. He does not and cannot dispute that he freely sent those emails to multiple parties. He does not and cannot claim that the emails were misleadingly edited or altered in any way, let alone by the NFL Parties, or that the views espoused in them were not in fact expressed by him. Instead, Gruden has concocted a fictional story that attempts to paint himself as the victim of his own conduct."
The Nevada Supreme Court returned Jon Gruden's lawsuit to the state's District Court. The NFL filed two motions seeking prompt dismissal of Gruden's claims, arguing the complaint rests on unsupported allegations and should have been dismissed earlier. Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails he authored containing racist, misogynistic, and homophobic language were published. Gruden sued the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell alleging a malicious, orchestrated campaign to destroy his career. NFL attorneys assert Gruden cannot deny authoring and widely distributing the emails and invoke Nevada's anti‑SLAPP statute to bar the suit.
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