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David S. Doty, Judge Who Helped Shape the Modern N.F.L., Dies at 96 David S. Doty, a federal judge who presided over a series of cases involving National Football League players that led to a landmark agreement in 1993 that ushered in free agency, a salary cap and revenue sharing, which shaped the modern N.F.L., died on June 27 in Edina, Minn. He was 96. His death, in hospice care, was confirmed by his daughter, Laura Mary Doty....