Former basketball player Isiah Thomas (I used to love him when I was a kid, I mean LOVE!) is being sued by the former Vice President of marketing and business operations for the Knicks, Anucha Browne Sanders. Shortly after she filed the complaint, she was fired and is suing and one of her complaints is that she was fired because she brought up potentially being sexually harassed by Thomas.
A jury indicated yesterday that it had decided that Madison Square Garden and Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a former marketing executive, but that it had not yet reached a verdict on all nine points of the lawsuit.
In a note to United States District Court Judge Gerard E. Lynch, who read it in open court late yesterday afternoon, jurors said that they had decided eight of the points but could not reach agreement on whether Thomas should pay damages to the former executive, Anucha Browne Sanders.
According to a legal scholar, there is a potential for there to be a mistrial if all nine points aren't decided in the case, or if the judge throws out one charge, he could potentially throw out all of them.
Harassment cases are so aggravating, between the difficulty of proving it in the 'he said, she said' wars and the burden of proof lying on the woman to always prove that she was harassed and worthy of trial and reparations.
