ZEKE CASE GOING BACK TO COURT
Attorneys for Dallas’ Ezekiel Elliott are set for an emergency hearing in federal court to stop the running back’s six-game suspension.
Attorneys for Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott are set for an emergency hearing in federal court in New York as they try again to stop the running back’s six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday night.
Elliott’s legal team filed a request for a temporary restraining order Monday and will get a hearing today in the Southern District of New York, the person told the AP on condition of anonymity because the filing hadn’t been made public.
Last year’s NFL rushing leader is suspended for Sunday’s game at San Francisco after a federal appeals court overturned an injunction that had allowed him to play this season.
The case is shifting to New York because the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered the dismissal of Elliott’s lawsuit in Texas. Elliott’s attorneys have indicated they are still pursuing the case with the New Orleans court.
The person told the AP that U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty would hear arguments in New York because the presiding judge, Katherine Polk Fialla, is out of town.
Elliott was suspended in August by Commissioner Roger Goodell after the league concluded following a yearlong investigation that he had several physical confrontations in the summer of 2016 with Tiffany Thompson, his girlfriend at the time.
Prosecutors in Columbus, Ohio, decided not to pursue the case in the city where Elliott starred for Ohio State, citing conflicting evidence.
NFL Players Association attorneys, working on Elliott’s behalf, indicated in an earlier filing Monday that they intended to seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction through the New York court.
A three-judge panel on the appeals court ruled by a 2-1 vote last week that Elliott’s attorneys filed the Texas lawsuit prematurely because an arbitrator had yet to decide on the running back’s appeal through the NFL. Because the lawsuit was premature straining order and preliminary injunction through the New York court.
TITANS 36, COLTS 22: In Nashville, Tenn., Marcus Mariota threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Taywan Taylor with 5:29 left, and the Tennessee beat Indianapolis on Monday night to snap an 11-game skid, tied for the NFL’s longest active losing streak, against one team.
Mariota didn’t move around much on a cool night after missing a game with a strained left hamstring, but still managed to throw for a season-high 306 yards. He completed each of his three passes on the drive that ended with Taylor’s tiebreaking score.
The Titans (3-3) had lost two straight.
Jacoby Brissett tried to rally the Colts (2-4) to a second straight overtime. But Titans linebacker Wesley Woodyard forced Brissett out of bounds shy of the first down marker on fourthand-inches with 2:19 left. Coach Chuck Pagano lost his challenge.
Derrick Henry then clinched the win for Tennessee with a 72-yard TD run with 47 seconds left.
RAIDERS: NaVorro Bowman will make a short move after his release from the 49ers, agreeing to a oneyear, $3 million contract with Oakland.
Bowman visited the Raiders on Monday, then signed the deal. He went right into meetings with the assistant coaches and could be ready to play when the Raiders (2-4) host the firstplace Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night.
PACKERS: Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy says quarterback Aaron Rodgers will have surgery on his broken right collarbone, and that his season could be over. Backup Brett Hundley is now starting.
BUCS: Jameis Winston has a sprained AC joint in his throwing shoulder, an injury Tampa Bay hopes will not cost him any more playing time.
VIKINGS: Teddy Bridgewater has been cleared to rejoin the team for practice, roughly 14 months after a dislocation and multiple ligament tears in his left knee.