He basically said, yeah I know you signed away all the power to discipline to the commissioners office, and I know this has already been arbitrated, but it really was unfair, so I am going to undo the lousy deal you made.
Tom, you didn't have due process, because they didn't tell you what the punishment would be if you fought this, so I'm going to make the punishment go away completely.
It has gotten impossible to predict what judges will do. This guy out did Gooddell in making up the rules.