ByConor Murray,
Forbes Staff.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to the National Football League on Wednesday targeting the league’s decades-old “Rooney Rule,” suggesting it violates Florida law by promoting racial or gender diversity in hiring coaches.
Uthmeier said in a letter to the NFL, which he posted on X on Wednesday, the NFL’s “inclusive hiring” policies “raise significant concerns under Florida law,” further accusing the league of a “history of open discrimination.”
Uthmeier cited the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which was implemented in 2003 and requires teams to interview at least two people of color or women for head coach and general manager positions, and to interview at least one person of color or woman for quarterback coach and senior executive positions.
