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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Even if you were generous and went with 800 players it's still not a large sum of money compared to what Murray Edwards has alone.
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It should be more than enough to see the case through, if it weren’t the players would have likely given in to the owners’ demands. Also I don’t know if you want to be arguing that the owners have so much money that they’ll win their case by bankrupting the PA with litigation when you’re also trying to get everyone to empathize with their position that the players should be paid less than what the owners agreed to. Just my 2 cents.
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This case is a textbook definition of Force Majeure. There's a global pandemic that has muddied the intent of the agreement. Do you think a court will find that the evolving global situation around pandemic control is not disruptive enough to trigger that clause? I disagree entirely if so.
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The league is going to have a hard time using force majeure as their defence when they literally predicted this outcome during their negotiations. I think it’s possible you’re not as familiar with all the facts of this case or the textbook definition of force majeure as you may think you are.
A global pandemic is something that in most cases could easily be used to void a contract with a force majeure clause, but that is not likely in a case where the contract was negotiated specifically to deal with the fallout of said pandemic.