Second Circuit’s Chief Judge would have scrapped Brady appeal, based in part on stickum rules

Yes, the NFL won the Tom Brady appeal. No, it wasn’t a slam dunk. Judge Robert A. Katzmann, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, strongly disagrees with the two judges who ruled in favor of the NFL. In a separate dissenting opinion, Judge Katzmann explains that, in his…