{"id":74030,"date":"2026-05-26T12:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/us-supreme-court-rejects-nfls-appeal-in-brian-floress-racial-discrimination-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:58:57","slug":"us-supreme-court-rejects-nfls-appeal-in-brian-floress-racial-discrimination-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/us-supreme-court-rejects-nfls-appeal-in-brian-floress-racial-discrimination-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"US supreme court rejects NFL\u2019s appeal in Brian Flores\u2019s racial discrimination lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Justices refuse to intervene, clearing way for open trial<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>League had wanted case handled through arbitration<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/feb\/01\/brian-flores-sues-nfl-dolphins-broncos-giants-racism-black-head-coaches\">Former Dolphins coach sued NFL, three teams in 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US supreme court on Tuesday refused to intervene in a discrimination lawsuit led by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores against the NFL, allowing the case to proceed toward trial.<\/p>\n<p>The justices rebuffed an appeal from the league, which wanted the case handled through its arbitration process rather than open court in New York. Justice Brett Kavanaugh dissented from the decision not to hear the case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/26\/brian-flores-nfl-discrimination-lawsuit-supreme-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices refuse to intervene, clearing way for open trial League had wanted case handled through arbitration Former Dolphins coach sued NFL, three teams in 2022 The US supreme court on Tuesday refused to intervene in a discrimination lawsuit led by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores against the NFL, allowing the case to proceed &#8230; <a title=\"US supreme court rejects NFL\u2019s appeal in Brian Flores\u2019s racial discrimination lawsuit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/us-supreme-court-rejects-nfls-appeal-in-brian-floress-racial-discrimination-lawsuit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US supreme court rejects NFL\u2019s appeal in Brian Flores\u2019s racial discrimination lawsuit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}