The NFL had tried to suspend Minnesota Vikings Pat Williams and Kevin Williams four games each for breaking the league’s anti-doping policy.
Now, the House Energy and Commerce Committee contrives to conduct a hearing next month on the case of two professional football players, whose suspensions were frozen by a federal appeals court.
According to Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, he is worried that the legal issues pertaining to NFL would ensue to weaker implementation of performance-enhancing drug policies for professional football.
The league wanted to suspend the two Viking players for testing positive for a weight loss supplement called Starcaps during the 2008 training camp. The players inadvertently took the supplement with the diuretic bumetanide. Diuretics are illegal because they can disguise the presence of steroids in the urine. The players were not charged of taking any steroids.
Nonetheless, the two players sued the league because they laid claim that NFL neglected to inform them that StarCaps secretly contained bumetanide.
Aside from that, the players also contended that the screening offended particular state workplace laws. Last month, the eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals continued an injunction released by a federal judge blocking the order.
From Journal Gazette:
WASHINGTON – The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to conduct a hearing next month on the case of two professional football players, whose suspensions were blocked by a federal appeals court.
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