The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected the NFL's petition seeking a rehearing of an August decision that said former Raiders coach Jon Gruden could not be forced into league arbitration in his lawsuit alleging the league leaked damaging emails to the media before he resigned from the team in 2021.

All seven justices signed the order rejecting the league's petition for a rehearing.

The last legal resort left for the NFL is an appeal for the U.S. Supreme Court, which sources with knowledge of the situation have told ESPN is likely. A league spokesman declined to comment Thursday night.

In August, by a 5-2 ruling , Nevada's high court did not determine whether the league had leaked Gruden's emails. But a majority of justices found that the league's decision to force

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