The Office.(The Talk of the Town)(Anucha Browne Sanders' sexual harassment and wrongful termination case)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-OCT-07

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Down at the Federal Courthouse, on Pearl Street, a squalid little civil action has garnered big attention in recent weeks. Anucha Browne Sanders, a former marketing executive with the New York Knicks, is suing the team's head coach, Isiah Thomas; its owners, Madison Square Garden; and the Garden's chief executive, James Dolan, for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. She says that she was fired because of her sexual-harassment complaints, which involve, among other allegations, Thomas's hugging and attempting to kiss her, his urging her to accompany him "off site" (the new "nudge-nudge"?), and his calling her a "bitch." The Garden claims that she was fired because she was incompetent, and because she...

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