Judge Rules Arbitrator Had Authority Over NBA Brawl
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A federal judge ruled that National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern doesn&#39;t have the final say in punishing players for behavior during games, upholding an arbitrator&#39;s
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A federal judge ruled yesterday in New York that Indiana All-Star Jermaine O'Neal does not have to serve the final 10 games of his suspension for fighting with fans at the end of the Pacers-Pistons game last month.
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Indiana's Jermaine O'Neal can play against Detroit on Christmas after a federal judge upheld an arbitrator's decision to reduce the forward's suspension for fighting with fans during the Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons brawl.
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NBA Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson are in trouble with the NBA again. The central figures in the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills were each suspended without pay by the league yesterday for the first seven games of next season because of their most recent legal problems. Artest, now with the Sacramento Kings, pleaded no contest in May ...
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Two weeks after the fact, lawyers for the NBA and the players&#39; union had their own little brawl. Attorneys for the two sides fought before an arbitrator and in federal
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Jermaine O'Neal will be able to play for the Indiana Pacers against the Detroit Pistons after a US District Court ruled here Thursday upheld a reduction in the suspension from a brawl.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - A federal judge has upheld an  arbitrator's ruling that reduced the suspension of Indiana  Pacers forward Jermaine O'Neal to 15 games.
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Indiana forward Jermaine O'Neal will go before a federal judge today to see if he can continue playing for the Pacers. If the ruling goes against him, and O'Neal returns to the suspended list, he said he'll accept it. Originally suspended by NBA commissioner David Stern for 25 games for fighting with fans during the Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons brawl, an ...
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A federal judge upholds an arbitrator's decision to reduce Indiana forward Jermaine O'Neal suspension, meaning the Pacers' star can play against Detroit on Christmas.
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Jermaine O'Neal won a 10-game reduction Wednesday in his suspension for fighting with fans during the Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons brawl, but an arbitrator also upheld NBA commissioner David Stern's bans on Ron Artest and two other Indiana players.
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An arbitrator yesterday reduced by 10 games the 25-game suspension handed Indiana Pacer forward Jermaine O&#39;Neal for his role in one of the ugliest and
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The Indiana Pacers&#39; Jermaine O&#39;Neal can play against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday after a federal judge upheld an arbitrator&#39;s decision to reduce the forward&#39;s suspension for fighting with fans during the Nov.
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The National Basketball Players Association and the NBA traded legal blows Friday in the ongoing fallout from the Nov. 19 brawl between Indiana Pacers players and fans at the Palace of Auburn Hills (Mich.
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An arbitrator heard six hours of testimony Thursday in a grievance hearing that the NBA refused to attend about the Pacers-Pistons brawl-related suspensions issued by commissioner David Stern.
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An independent arbitrator ruled yesterday that Jermaine O&#39;Neal, one of four Indiana Pacers suspended for their roles in a brawl during a game against the Detroit Pistons at the Palace at Auburn
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NEW YORK: The National Basketball Association and the playersâ union were at loggerheads on Friday over who has jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the record suspensions meted out in the wake the ugly brawl at a Pacers-Pistons game last month.
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Indiana forward Jermaine O'Neal can play against Detroit on Christmas after a federal judge upheld an arbitrator's decision to reduce the Pacers star's suspension for his part in a Nov. 19 brawl between the teams.