A jury has ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive after finding that coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden sexually harassed her. The jury ordered MSG to pay $8.6 million, and chairman James Dolan to pay $3 million, in punitive damages to Anucha Browne Sanders. The jury did not find Thomas liable for punitive damages. In the coming weeks, the presiding judge will determine and award compensatory damages. Thomas and MSG have said they will appeal.
October 03, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
In an end to a salacious three-week trial, a jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive who endured crude insults and unwanted advances from coach Isiah Thomas.
The jury of four women and three men found Thomas and Madison Square Garden sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders, but it decided only MSG and chairman James Dolan should pay for harassing and firing Browne Sanders from her $260,000-a-year job out of spite.
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