lystn

Nasir and Matt talk about the legal fallout from the Ray Rice suspension by the NFL and answer "I'd like to know about the legalities and liabilities from a safety standpoint - whose responsibility is it to check that items conform to safety laws, what can be done to ensure that CE Certification, Kitemarks, RF certification and so on are genuine? If a product breaks, who is liable? If a product causes harm to the end user, who is liable? What about textile or similar products requiring fireproofing treatment? Is liability insurance something the end seller should have or the manufacturer?It seems lots of people on here are eager to start importing things, but I'm deadly scared of ending up with something illegal or unsafe on my hands." See info for products liability for importers. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our business podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist and also answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send in to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com. This is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And this is Matt Staub. NASIR: And here we are on another episode. Today, we’re talking about football, right? MATT: Yeah, we’re going to talk about football and this story has been pretty overblown. I mean, even by the time we’re recording this, this story’s oversaturated. NASIR: Played out so to speak? MATT: Yeah, we’re going to do it a little bit different; talk about kind of the legal aspects of this Ray Rice issue of the NFL. So, if you are not familiar with this, basically, Ray Rice is a football player for the NFL. Originally, he got suspended for two games for what was assumed to be some sort of domestic violence. New video came out last week by the time people listening into this that showed that it was much worse than the first video. Basically, he punched his now wife, at the time fiancé, knocked her out cold. Somehow, the NFL claim that they never saw the video up until this past week so I won’t get into that because that seems questionable right off the bat. As a result, what happened was the NFL suspended him indefinitely and the team he played for, the Baltimore Ravens, cut him altogether. So, we are going to talk some of the legal aspects of it. There’s a few things that come to mind in terms of what his options are or what kind of legal fallout could be. But, I guess, first things first, before I get into it is keep in mind, whether he should even get involved in this in the first place but I don’t know if we will discuss that or not, but that’s just the consideration. So, you can petition a court for an injunction that would say he would be available as a free agent following the second week because the original suspension was two games; now, it’s indefinitely so the argument there is kind of a double jeopardy argument – can’t get penalized twice for the same violation. Can file civil loss against the NFL for monetary damages and then can file a grievance with a collective bargaining agreement and go that route as well but, like I said, I don’t know if any of this is even worth it honestly for him and it’s definitely not worth it for the NFL because – I kind of alluded to this at the beginning that – the commissioner’s definitely in some hot water, boiling hot water, after this and, if they get into the court process and the NFL does not settle this out or do whatever, they’re going to depose the commissioner and all the people. So, at that point, he can’t lie anymore; I guess he could but there’s a much more severe penalty than lying to a media in person. NASIR: Yeah, and I think what’s interesting is that the NFL has created rules almost… I don’t want to say ambiguous but kind of generalized on purpose because I don’t believe that the league itself has specific rules that dictate any kind of mandatory suspensions on physical abuse of their players, et cetera. There is some discretion involved with the commissioner and so forth.