(L-R) Jackie Robinson Foundation President and CEO Della Britton Baeza, ROBIE Humanitarian Award winner Paul Tagliabue, Jackie Robinson Foundation Chairman Leonard S. Coleman Jr. and Rachel Robinson pose with the award at the Jackie Robinson Foundation Awards Gala at The Waldorf=Astoria on March 5, 2012 in New York City.
(March 4, 2012 – Source: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images North America)
(PhatzRadio / SI) — The NFL Players Association will ask a federal judge to remove former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue from his position as arbitrator in the bounty appeal process and will file the necessary paperwork by Wednesday, reports the SportsBusiness Journal.
The report and Profootballtalk.com says the NFLPA will file a motion to recuse Tagliabue on Wednesday because that is the court-mandated deadline to file the paperwork. The NFLPA hasn’t asked Tagliabue directly to recuse himself from the case. The bounty hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30.
The NFLPA is concerned because Tagliabue works for a law firm that represents the league in the bounty case and says he should be not allowed to preside over the bounty case.
