Former New York Knick Charles Oakley can depose team owner and Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan in the ongoing assault and battery suit related to Oakley’s ejection from the venue in 2017, a federal court said.
Dolan fought the deposition, saying that he was an apex witness—that he didn’t have any unique knowledge of the incident that other witnesses couldn’t provide.
But Dolan was in MSG the night Oakley was thrown out and Oakley alleged that Dolan ordered the ejection, Judge Richard J. Sullivan said Tuesday in an opinion for the US District Court for the Southern District of ...
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