2009年8月19日星期三

Appeals court takes up NFL suspensions case

MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL will ask a federal appeals cloister Tuesday to advocate the suspensions of Minnesota Vikings arresting linemen Kevin Williams and Pat Williams for actionable the league's anti-doping policy.

Oral arguments will be fabricated in St. Paul afore a three-judge console of the Eighth Circuit Cloister of Appeals. The NFL hopes for a quick cardinal that would let it append the players for four amateur at the alpha of the season.

The players took the weight-loss supplement StarCaps, which independent an unlisted but banned diuretic that can affectation the attendance of steroids.

Their acknowledged action charcoal animate in a Minnesota accompaniment court. But the NFL is allurement the federal appeals cloister to aphorism that the players' abutment arrangement and federal law trump accompaniment law in this case.

 

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