It will be settled out of court, and neither side will compensate the other for legal fees. This is why there is no hurry to hire an expensive Blazer GM.
So this isn't going to work like a normal class action suit (defense attorneys bill hours to their clients (owners) and plaintiffs attorneys get a % of the settlement)?
Why in the world would the NBA settle out of court? Also, that's not how the settlement would work, because the lawyer fees for the plaintiff would come out of any settlement. That's the dumbest post in this entire thread.
It's unanimous. Out of 2845 posts, I take pride in this achievement, and I would like a cookie from each of you.
Billy Hunter expects court mediation NEW YORK -- Union executive director Billy Hunter said Tuesday he expected that a Minnesota magistrate judge would mediate the players' lawsuit against the NBA, as the court did in the NFL's labor dispute. Hunter specifically mentioned U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, the court-appointed mediator in the NFL talks. Boylan is not the magistrate assigned to the NBA antitrust suit, although the district judge has the discretion to appoint a different magistrate to mediate. "What may very well be is the judge there directs the magistrate, as they did in the NFLPA case, to host a settlement conference, and that could possibly occur as early as next week," Hunter said. One reason the players' lawyers decided to consolidate two suits against the NBA in Minnesota, he said, was that the district court there routinely uses magistrates to mediate cases. Different groups of players filed separate lawsuits in California and Minnesota last week. On Monday, lawyers withdrew the California complaint and filed a consolidated, amended suit in Minnesota. Players attorney David Boies said at the time that the choice was made because cases move faster in Minnesota. Hunter said Tuesday that the possibility of having a magistrate mediate also played into the decision, with the same goal in mind: resolving the labor strife quickly. "It makes it easier for the parties to get together when the court is involved," he said. NBA owners locked out the players July 1, and the labor strife has forced games to be canceled through Dec. 15. The owners had already filed a lawsuit of their own in the Southern District of New York and could file a motion to have the Minnesota case moved there. After the two sides were unable to reach an accord, the players disbanded the union last week. That set the stage for the increasingly bitter labor dispute to move from the negotiating table to the courtroom, which could jeopardize the entire 2011-12 season. Hunter spoke Tuesday after NBPA officials and players distributed Thanksgiving turkeys to local families outside their office in Harlem. The NBPA gave away 9,000 turkeys nationally in New York, Atlanta, Houston, Washington, Miami and New Orleans. The Knicks' Roger Mason Jr., a member of the NBPA board, said he didn't find anything awkward about discussing the players' demands right after distributing the turkeys. "Especially during the lockout where you have two (sides) unable to get something done and there's a lot of talk of greed -- Thanksgiving season, this is a time to give back," he said, "and I just feel like it's important for all of us to do that." Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski NBA and players resumed talks on Tuesday to try and end the lockout before the cancellation of Christmas games, two sources told Y! Sports. 52 minutes ago
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski Talks were expected to continue today, sources said, and one league source tells Y!: "We should know more by later this evening." 51 minutes ago
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski Derek Fisher isn't a part of the talks now, sources say. 39 minutes ago
No idea if he was hacked or not because no one else has said anything about talks happening. Although, Woj is pretty connected
I was curious who exactly is talking in these new negotiations. Once the union was turned into a trade association they said themselves they could no longer collectively bargain on behalf of the players. So is it the lawyers? Perhaps thats why Kessler was brought into the negotiations so early, they new if they couldn't reach an agreement and had to file lawsuits Kessler would takeover all negotiations.
I thought I read a while back that Kessler and Boies would be the ones talking, but the NBA wanted to deal with Hunter
Woj is always on top of what's going on. Very interesting if this is true, also that Fisher isn't involved.
