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Photo by Rich Graessle/PPI/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Icon Sportswire via Getty Images On May 30, 2025, a Pennsylvania federal court refused NFL player agent Todd France’s request to vacate a December 2023 arbitration decision which ordered France to pay over $800,000 in damages to rival agent Jason Bernstein and which excoriated France for fraudulent conduct. The stage is now set for the NFLPA’s Committee on Agent Regulation and Discipline (CARD) to suspend France, or perhaps revoke his agent certification entirely. The Bernstein-France Arbitration In July 2019, Bernstein filed a grievance with the NFLPA against France alleging that he had violated the NFLPA’s regulations by initiating conversations with Bernstein’s client, then-Detroit Lions wide receiver Kenny Golladay, including assisting him in a card signing, and then ultimately signing Golladay as a client. It is not uncommon for agents to bring such cases when they perceive a client to have been stolen, but there has never been a decision finding that an agent violated the regulations (cases frequently settle). In March 2020, NFLPA Arbitrator Roger Kaplan issued a decision in France’s favor, finding that Bernstein had failed to prove that France engaged in the alleged wrongful conduct. The Initial Court Challenges The parties then filed competing actions to vacate or confirm the award. The document discovery in those cases revealed that France had been untruthful during the NFLPA arbitration process. Specifically, France had denied both in a pre-hearing deposition and again at the hearing that he had any involvement with Golladay’s January 2019 autograph event. In fact, emails produced in those cases showed that France and his team had arranged the event and negotiated the contract for the event. Yet, during the arbitration process, France had denied having any documents related to the signing event. Despite these revelations, a district court declined…

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