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Anucha Browne Sanders gets the cover treatment from the Post and Daily News after a jury believed that Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas and that Madison Square Garden (the owner of the Knicks) were liable for sexual harassment. amNY, though, chose to put Isiah Thomas on its cover, with an inset of Knicks owner James Dolan, next to the headline "Rotten to the Court" - oh snap!
Browne Sanders was also awarded $11.6 million in damages from the jury: $6 million from MSG for the hostile work environment, $2.6 million from MSG for retaliation and $3 million from James Dolan personally for retaliation. Browne Sanders said, "There are many women out there who I have spoken for that don't have the wherewithal to fight. You want to be able to go to work in a comfortable environment where you are respected. What I did here, I did for every working woman in America."
She also thanked the jury for "seeing through to the truth." When one of the jurors, Sally Anne Foster, was asked if the jury was sending a message to MSG with the settlement, she said, "Obviously, we did." Foster had also said, "She shouldn't have been fired," and that Browne Sanders was "believable." From the Post:
The verdict discredited Dolan's testimony that he fired Sanders for being inept and for tampering with an investigation into her sexual-harassment claims. He had boasted in a taped deposition, "All decisions at the Garden I make on my own."In the Daily News, there are some more quotes from Foster, who noted that Browne Sanders' documentation of the harassment helped her case and felt that former intern Kathleen Decker, who admitted she had sex with Stephon Marbury in a truck, is "awfully young and made some unintelligent choices."Asked what the jury thought of Dolan, Foster said, "He should have consulted a lawyer. He should have taken more time to let the whole process work."
She added that Garden executives "need sensitivity training."
"I wouldn't want one of my children working there because of all the language you have to listen to," Foster said. "We don't use those words in our house."
U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Lynch will decide how much Browne Sanders is owed in front and back pay; Newsday explains, "She is asking for about $600,000 in back pay and $9.7 million in damage to her reputation, lost earnings and pension, as well as other compensation. She may also be able to recover attorney fees and costs."
The Daily News' Mike Lupica thinks Isiah Thomas should have been fired after the verdict, "But this is James Dolan's Garden, where Dolan writes an $11.6 million check to Anucha Browne Sanders as if paying off another bad power forward, then issues a statement that this is all the jury's fault. Maybe he should get his old man to buy him a new jury." The NY Times' Jim Dwyer writes it's a "frightening thought to Knick fans everywhere" if the Knicks continue their normal operations, per a statement after the verdict.
Thomas headed to South Carolina for Knicks training camp after the verdict was read. It's unlikely the NBA will reprimand him; the NBA said it doesn't comment on civil cases. And for more reading:
- The Daily News compiled some choice Dolan quotes.
- The Post speaks to lawyers who think MSG was stupid to not take the sexual harassment claims seriously.
- Fans believe the Knicks and MSG are terrible (secret boon for the Nets' fan prospects?)
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Am I the only one who finds the RE$PECT in the New
York Post a little racist?
Commisioner stern and the nba board of governors should force the dolan family to divest themselves of the knicks. - oscar madison
Isn't that a bit overkill payment for someone calling a nappy headed ho a "bitch?"
She won the lottery.
That is why you never ever hire a woman.
Colored men are so wonderful...
#1 How is that racist..?!
why did Dolan hire Isiah in the first place? the guy has failure after failure in his career in basketball operations. he fucked up the aba. He fucked up the toronto raptors, he fucked up the pacers. he fucked up in the upstairs of Msg and he fucked up in the downstairs. How can you get more inept and people keep promoting you? Isiah must have pictures of Dolan with pre-pubescent boys. the only logical explanation.
Why racist? Because it has the sign $$.
That respect on the headline refers to monetary retribution.
Why racist? -When both parties were black-
Paranoia?, maybe.
Let's begin the misogynist comments!
she won't see a dime until the appeals are over.
It's good to see "nappy-headed hos" fighting back against their men and the establishment - hope to see more of this...
Isiah thomas is still smiling. When he lost as the knickd Gm he was still smiling. When the knicks got the shit kicked out of them by the Nuggets he was smiling. When he lost the sex harrassment case he was still smiling. I bet if you said that his daughter was gangraped he'd still be smiling. This dude is a fucking SOCIOPATH!
Of course he will be smiling! he does not get it!
He thinks after the abusive behavior was exposed and punished he is still innocent! Like all abusive men think they are! Victims of their own violence and idiocy.
He was proven an idiot in court...probably he'll bring his idiotic"smiley" attitude to other organization...if the organization is stupid enough to give him a chance.
You can see in many comments that some think he is a respectable men, that all was normal, no matter how much abuse was involved. Perfect "Tailbone" warriors. Opression of women is an ideal when men are weak and want power no matter the cost.
That is why you never ever hire a woman.
That's what I've learned from this whole thing.
to the previous comment at 2:00 am.
You say that 'cause flirting with men is OOOOHHH so nice...
Another one that thinks demanding sex for a salary, is fine!
some men are sooooo smart!
That is why you never ever hire a woman.
???? WTF? Is this a Taliban forum?
Dude do you live in like in Afganistan?
Look around moron: women work EVERYWHERE and they are not getting abused at every work place, the cases where that happen are being punished with millions because it is ILLEGAL!
Maybe you should think seriously the moving to Afganistan option.
"What I did here, I did for every working woman in America."
Bullshit! No one outside NY heard or cares about your black ass. If you did it for every working woman in America, then take that $11mil and split it with every working woman in America.
Harrasment cases have a big precedent with this case, that is what matetrs in terms of law. But of course simple minds think otherwise.
Of course Isiah is smiling, why shouldn't he? He's getting paid millions per year to basically do anything he wants for an undemanding boss who lets him get away with murder. I'd be smiling too. He probably went home after the court verdict and ordered up two hookers and an eight ball while checking his bank balance online. What's the worst that can happen to him? He'll get fired and have to live a life of leisure? Poor guy.