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151438P.pdf   08/04/2016  NFL Players Association  v.  National Football League
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1438
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Murphy, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Arbitration. When the Commissioner of the NFL suspended Adrian Peterson in 2014 he also imposed a fine equal to six weeks' salary; Peterson has returned to play, and the issue before the court is whether the League may collect the fine imposed by the Commissioner and affirmed by the arbitrator; the parties bargained to be bound by the decision of the arbitrator and the arbitrator acted within his authority in affirming the fine; arguments that the arbitrator was "evidently partial" and that the arbitration was fundamentally unfair rejected; the district court erred in vacating the arbitrator's decision regarding the fine and the matter is remanded with directions to dismiss the Association's petition to vacate the arbitrator's decision.