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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/06/15/settlement-conference-between-oliver-luck-vince-mcmahon-nine-minutes-no-deal/
>As noted by Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com, a settlement conference was held on Wednesday. The official docket says that it lasted nine minutes.
>This strongly implies that the presiding judge realized based on the parties’ respective positions that any effort to try to resolve the case would have been fruitless. That the two sides are too far apart and too dug in to ever reach a middle ground.
>It sounds as if that’s what happened for Luck and McMahon. And so the case will go to trial, with $24 million or so riding on whether the jury believes that McMahon fired Luck for cause two months after the signing of former NFL receiver Antonio Callaway despite a mandate to avoid players with off-field issues, or whether that was a pretext for dumping Luck’s salary a day before the second iteration of the XFL imploded over the pandemic.
>As noted by Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com, a settlement conference was held on Wednesday. The official docket says that it lasted nine minutes.
>This strongly implies that the presiding judge realized based on the parties’ respective positions that any effort to try to resolve the case would have been fruitless. That the two sides are too far apart and too dug in to ever reach a middle ground.
>It sounds as if that’s what happened for Luck and McMahon. And so the case will go to trial, with $24 million or so riding on whether the jury believes that McMahon fired Luck for cause two months after the signing of former NFL receiver Antonio Callaway despite a mandate to avoid players with off-field issues, or whether that was a pretext for dumping Luck’s salary a day before the second iteration of the XFL imploded over the pandemic.
