James Dolan Must Face Deposition In Lawsuit Over Charles Oakley MSG Ejection, Judge Says

Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan must sit for deposition in a lawsuit over the 2017 ejection of ex-NBA player Charles Oakley from a Knicks game.

James Dolan speaks as MSG Entertainment and Billy Joel make a special franchise announcement at Chase Square at Madison Square Garden on June 01, 2023 in New York City.from the Manhattan arena, ruling that the CEO “had a courtside seat” for the incident.

Months after the incident, Oakley sued both Dolan and MSG, alleging a wide range of legal wrongdoing. Since then, the case has been on a seven-year journey up and down the federal court system. With Oakley’s lawyers demanding a deposition to help prove those claims, MSG argued that Dolan was a so-called apex witness – the kind of top-level executive that judges rarely pull into court cases unless they’re directly involved in the alleged wrongdoing.

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