A Manhattan federal court on Wednesday ruled in New York Knicks owner James Dolan’s favor in the two-year-old civil lawsuit filed by former Knicks forward Charles Oakley, according to reports.
The suit stems from a February 2017 scuffle between Oakley and Madison Square Garden security that led to his arrest during a nationally televised game between the Knicks and L.A. Clippers. Charges of misdemeanor assault, harassment and trespassing against Oakley were later dismissed.
“Oakley grossly misunderstands the law concerning a landlord’s right to remove a trespasser from its property,” Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Sullivan wrote in Wednesday’s verdict, according to the New York Daily News.