I've just finished reading the entire 40 pages of Judge Berman's decision, which was determined and issued largely on valid and important on points of law (...which, after all, is what judges are inclined to do). It's very ironic (and frankly, almost humorous) that the NFL so immediately and so very aggressively got this case filed its' chosen, NFL / Goodell "home turf" of NY --- only to ultimately be just flat out bludgeoned by the court they so aggressively sought.
Like it or not, the NFL (certainly including but not limited to Roger Goodell) clearly did nearly
everything wrong and nearly
nothing right in either the course of their (...ahem) "investigation" or in the stilted and biased public statements and conclusions by Goodell regarding their own subjective and convenient interpretation of a shoddy product. Access to a prime witness (Pash, who actually helped to "edit" the Wells report on behalf of the NFL) was completely denied to the player side --- a huge mistake by (and a truly fatal flaw to) the NFL side, in and of itself.
I don't see how Judge Berman could possibly have ruled any other way on the shoddy, stilted evidentiary farce of a product put before him, quite frankly.
To borrow (...again) from Randy Newman, "it's (...still) lonely at the top".