DeMaurice Smith
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756 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jul
DeMaurice Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The world is on the verge of economic collapse, and you're bragging that
about a $4 billion war chest in the future.
Right.
That got us thinking, well, wait a minute, this couldn't be a loan from a bank.
Where could it come from?
The plaintiffs in this case are all of the players of the National Football League.
Because we have an agreement with the National Football League owners called a collective bargaining agreement.
That's a contract between both parties that says, hey, we're going to execute this contract in a fair way.
And because it has to be fair, the NFL owners who negotiate those television contracts have a fiduciary duty to the players to maximize revenue.
We made the argument to a judge that when the owners cut these deals with the networks, the argument was they obviously took less money.
for those contracts because they wanted future money in the bank.
And the arbitrator ruled against us at the first instance, and then we filed an appeal of that case.
A judge ruled that there was enough evidence to show
that the league violated its fiduciary duty, that the league breached the collective bargaining agreement by cutting these secret deals with the networks and officially, effectively froze that $4 billion.
And people should know outside when you file a lawsuit,
you initiate something called discovery.
And discovery simply means that we file a request for documents on the other side, and we basically say, you have an obligation to turn over all of the documents that are relevant to this proceeding.
So discovery happens right after you file the lawsuit, and then you have a fight over what the documents mean.
I mean, I'm not even kidding.
So this is an internal document.
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