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Clerk moves to abate the docket as a continuing nuisance and stay all filings until the draft ends
Aaron Kelly, one day into the job, invokes the law of stream pollution against the parties, the amici, and the Commissioner. "Apportionment would require the Clerk to read the record again. The Clerk declines."
A century of commissioners who answer to no one, and the League that never wrote it down
Landis got a court-waiver clause. Goodell got Article 46. The Commissioner has cited an Article I that nobody has produced, and the appellant has cured the defect by creating a court.
Goldich answers both objectors: "Fantasy football is entertainment. Back-to-School Night is a parental obligation. This should not require a citation."
A consolidated opposition counts three households behind the 10 p.m. draft, congratulates Patel on 1,095 days of marriage, and finds in the derivatives theory "an argument less plausible than the Commissioner's."
Amicus concedes the draft is at 10 p.m., preserves his objection, and asks the Court to adjourn "before anyone thinks of something else to file"
A three-page supplemental brief withdraws the request for relief and keeps the displeasure. "Acquiescence is not waiver," a distinction "well established in every marriage in the League."
Second amicus opposes both parties: the draft is a derivatives market, and 10 p.m. is after-hours trading
Larry Florio, League member and father of two, files in support of neither party. He asks for 8:30, a timelock on decrees, and to be treated as "the class representative the appellant forgot to be."
Patel moves to intervene, calls the settlement collusive, and asks the Court to enforce the order the Commissioner forgot he signed
The amicus for the Commissioner is now against him. "Movant regrets that he was right about the standard and wrong about the man."
Appellant answers the amicus in one page: the draft is at 10 p.m., "on that point, the parties finally agree"
Marc Goldich declines to engage the admin-key theory, thanks amicus for calling his brief "very good," and signs as Recipient of Complete Relief.
Amicus brief: the Commissioner holds the admin key, "I don't want to" is a valid oracle output, and two is a group chat
Samir Patel, League member and holder of zero admin keys, files in support of the Commissioner. He would like the Court to consider whether any of this is real.
The arguments that didn't make the briefs
Retaliation, parallel-universe litigation, a dues strike, and the formatting dispute. What the appellant said in the chat that he had the discipline to leave out of the filings.
Commissioner moves draft to 10 p.m. by decree, insists he granted nothing; Court holds the case is not moot
The appellant dismissed his claims within the hour. The Commissioner says the new time is for his daughter's bedtime. The Court says a Commissioner who grants nothing can ungrant it, and the opinion will issue Monday.
Appellant asks Court to deem 10 p.m. draft time effective "by default or by contempt"
The emergency motion to compel judicial review objects to the referral of a live appeal to a trash bin.
Enhance the League minority's procedural powers
A class of two is still a class. The rules should say so before the next parent has to sue.
Justices grant expedited review in draft-time dispute, take up Phantom Clerk Doctrine
The Court will decide before Tuesday whether a Commissioner can end an appeal by not reading it. The Commissioner has not read the grant.
The Phantom Clerk Doctrine, explained
How a trash bin acquired appellate jurisdiction, and why the Court may take it away.