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With Commanders owner Daniel Snyder apparently hoping to testify before the House Oversight Committee without a subpoena in order to hide behind nondisclosure agreements that generally benefit him, lawyers representing more than 40 former employees of the team have requested that Snyder release them from their NDAs.
Lisa J. Banks and Debra S. Katz sent a letter on Tuesday to Snyder’s lawyer, Karen Patton Seymour, responding to her July 13 letter to the Oversight Commitee.
“In your letter to Chair Maloney, you state: ‘Mr. Snyder has not invoked any NDA to limit the information provided by witnesses that have spoken to the committee,’ suggesting that witnesses were free to answer any and all questions from the Committee notwithstanding any NDA they might have signed with the Washington Commanders,” they write. “As you know, that is not true. An NDA, by definition, limits information that a witness can disclose to a third party, including the Committee, subject to the terms of the agreement.”
That’s an accurate statement. NDAs don’t have to be activated. They become effective at their inception. The only thing a party can do is release the other party of the confidentiality requirement.
“In your letter, you also specifically addressed our client, Abby Dymond Welch, stating that Mr. Snyder ‘never prevented Ms. Welch from sharing information with the Committee,'” the lawyers write. “That is also not true, and Ms. Welch was forced to approach her testimony to the...
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