Welcome to a special May 29 edition of PFT PM.

Given the decision that was made this week by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Brian Flores case,

I thought it was a good opportunity to explain in the

simplest terms possible what this case is about, what's happened since it was first filed,

and where it goes from this point forward. I posted a call for questions on Twitter last night,

and I'm not going to answer them individually,

I'm sorry, but I have considered all of them

in coming up with what I'm planning to talk about.

Actually, I actually have notes.

More notes than would fit on one of the note cards I stole from NBC.

This is actually my own paper that I paid for it, Staples or wherever.

So this thing started February 1 of 2022.

In the weeks after, Brian Flores was fired by the Miami Dolphins. And I remember when I

first heard that he was suing the dolphins and others, we'll get to that, I was stunned because I

never thought there would be a case like this. The Rooney Rule was created in 2003

with the involvement of the late Johnny Cochran

and Cyrus Mary, they basically said to the league,

you gotta do something because if you don't,

there's gonna be litigation.

And so the League created the Rooney Rule, which is not a hiring mandate.

It's just a device for requiring teams to interview a diverse set of candidates.

At the end of the day, the teams decide who they're going to hire.

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