Ex-Knick Oakley Must Pay $642,000 Over Deleted Text Messages

Ex-New York Knick Charles Oakley must pay $642,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to MSG Networks Inc. and its co-defendants after he failed to preserve text messages in his lawsuit against Madison Square Garden.

Oakley, who sued the famed Manhattan sports and arts venue over his televised ejection from a Knicks games as a spectator in 2017, failed to reduce his sanctioned fees and costs in part because he failed to show that the defendants’ lawyers were overqualified for the work they did, said Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky, of the US District Court for the Southern District of New ...