As expected, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down football player Maurice Clarett’s motion to stay the Second Circuit’s order of earlier this week that bars Clarett and similarly situated underclassmen from this weekend’s NFL Draft pending the Second Circuit’s final adjudication of the NFL’s appeal of the U.S. District Court decision that enjoined the NFL from barring Clarett and similarly situated underclassmen from the NFL Draft. The SCOTUS’ reasoning was the same as the Second Circuit’s. Inasmuch as the NFL has already agreed to conduct a supplemental draft for Clarett and others like him before the upcoming NFL seaosn if the Second Circuit upholds the District Court’s decision, SCOTUS concluded that there was no material harm to Clarett and the others in barring them from this weekend’s draft pending the Second Circuit’s ruling on the merits of the NFL’s appeal.