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Peterson and the NFL Players Association sued the NFL last month, hoping to overturn his suspension for the rest of the 2014 season, through this April. The Vikings running back had been disciplined by commissioner Roger Goodell after a plea deal was reached in his child abuse case in Texas from last September. Until then, he had been on the commissioner’s exempt list, inactive but still receiving his salary.
Peterson lost an appeal of his suspension before arbitrator Harold Henderson and quickly went for relief from the courts, claiming that Henderson, a former NFL executive, was not impartial.He also claims that the league punished him retroactively, under a different personal conduct policy than the one implemented by the NFL in December.
