Shedeur Sanders Fan Sues NFL for Emotional Distress Over Sanders’ Late Draft Pick
From Doe v. NFL (M.D. Ga.), filed yesterday:
That claim, I’m pretty confident, is going nowhere. (Claims for “intentional infliction of emotional distress” based on extreme and outrageous conduct are indeed viable in some situations, but they require highly egregious conduct, generally targeted at the particular plaintiff.)
Doe also alleges violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act (“The collusion among NFL teams to influence the drafting process and the subsequent low selection of Shedeur Sanders constitutes a conspiracy to restrain trade and limit competition within the league”) and federal antidiscrimination law (“The decisions made regarding Sanders may have been influenced by racial discrimination, violating his rights as a player”).
But of course he doesn’t have standing to challenge alleged ha
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