Jury Awards $11.6 Million to Former Knicks Executive

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I am not sure what to say about this other than – Wow! Does the size of the judgment “fit the crime”?</p>

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<p>Take a job where you’re subjected to unwanted personal intrusion and where both your job and career are hanging in the balance if you complain. You might possibly feel differently.</p>

<p>The workplace attitudes left over from the 1950’s, the Golden Years of America for many, can’t go extinct quickly enough.</p>

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<p>Its going to get thrown out on appeal. Uneducated,one-sided jurors are to blamed. I have posted before about most jurors are from uneducated pool with bias against the rich and powerful. In my view jury should be reformed to get more educated pool.</p>

<p>She wasn’t molested, or raped. Why $11M ? It comes out of Knicks tickets. She’s got the gall to say this award is a victory for all working women. If that is so then I like to see she donates large sum of it to woman causes. But I’ll bet she going to Aruba instead.</p>

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<p>When are the Knicks fans going to get $11 million for the pain they’ve had to endure from Isiah running their team into the ground? </p>

<p>Just kidding (sort of).</p>

<p>Salaries, etc, are so ridiculous in the NBA that $11 million doesn’t sound unreasonable to these people. Anything less would be pocket change.</p>

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<p>I don’t get it—Thomas and MSG were not given any “punitive” damages. What could $11M be based on if it doesn’t include punitive damages? Yikes.</p>

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<p>Maybe to send a message that “a good ol’ boy just having a little fun” isn’t acceptable in the workplace. A sad commentary when molestation or rape is the bar for unacceptable behavior. Shucks, why just not fine him the price of lap dance?</p>

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<p>I bet some feathers would be mightily ruffled with outrage if the shoe were on the other foot.</p>

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<p>I fully agree that this was unacceptable behavior, and should not have been tolerated. Having these high profile cases, especially of people like Thomas with his flashy smile–maybe that will eventually get the message across that whether or not it was a minimum wage worker or a high powered exec, this behavior should never be tolerated. However, presumably, the fines were for actual damages and not punitive damages? My question was, how could there be $11M in actual damages?</p>

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<p>How do you figure the dollar amount of humiliation and being fired?</p>

<p>$11 million may be excessive. I could live with it being reduced to $1M on appeal. For some guys, that’d just be the cost of doing business.</p>

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<p>What is ironic about this case is that the supposed sexual harasser, Coach Thomas, does not have to pay anything. His employer must pay the compensatory damages, but Thomas only has to pay if the jury finds punitive damages against him. The jury did not find a basis for punitive damages against Thomas and the judge declared a mistrial on that issue.</p>

<p>Damages equallying loss of pay and damage to reputation have not yet been determined. </p>

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<p>ESPN asks whether Thomas should be fired.</p>

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<p>Someday we’ll get Tort Reform. I think McDonald’s coffee is still made a little too hot in case anyone wants to drop some on their lap. I think that’s still worth a couple mil.</p>

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<p>Of course, Thomas should be fired! God, what a pig!</p>

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<p>Thomas should be fired. The verdict should be reduced to $1M or so. We fire people at my company for much, much less if they show disrespect to co-workers or anyone else in the workplace.</p>

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<p>Not going to be reduced. It will be settled out of court, and we’ll never hear about it again. </p>

<p>Large jury awards are simply about sending a message, and it looks like, given what has been written here so far, it works!</p>

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<p>True! True!</p>

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<p>Even if the work place is 1600 Penn Avenue?</p>

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<p>15 posts to get to clinton…impressive</p>

<p>that must be some kind of record for a thread that has the word sex in it to ge to clinton</p>

<p>nice job xiggi…</p>

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<p>Ughh, not the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit again.</p>

<p>While I, like pretty much every American, was shocked at the news reports of the judgment of this lawsuit, the media did a really good job of misrepresenting the actual facts.</p>

<p>If one looks more closely at the facts - the judgment against McDonald’s and the final $$ amount award to the injured party was reasonable.</p>

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<p>Some additional things - the jury determined that the plaintiff was 20% at fault and reduced her compensatory damages by 20% from $200k to $160k.</p>

<p>The $2.7 million in punitive damages was later reduced to $480k on appeal.</p>

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<p>Maybe you’re the one with the bias.</p>

<p>Dolan the younger is known to misuse The Garden /MSG/Knicks/Rangers as his playpen and is generally known to be a spoiled brat (unlike his father).</p>

<p>And btw, the $11 mil was for punitive damages - and while that amount is likely to be reduced on appeal - the whole point of punitive damages is to give the offending party a large enough financial hit whereby it will reform its ways and refrain from making the same mistake again.</p>

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<p>I is happy to oblige, CGM. Does it change the Caf</p>

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<p>Xiggi, Bill & Monica was sordid but consensual. Note Monica’s comment upon receiving notice of her internship that she was going to get some presidential knee-pads. Perhaps you’re taking courses at the Limbaugh-O’Reilly correspondence School of Spin in your spare time?</p>

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<p>it is amazing, that any thing to do with sex requires some, ie xiggi, to discuss clinton</p>

<p>nobody elses sex lives, nope just clinton, who stayed married</p>

<p>such little imaginzation</p>

<p>and theDad, oh heaven forbid we such talk about consensual sex and a reconciliation by a married couple, not its better to cheat and leave, and get numerous divorces!!!</p>