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Article: CIVIL SUIT FILED AGAINST ALLEN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2005
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Sometime in the early morning of Aug. 28, the Celtics' Tony Allen
entered the White Palace Grill in Chicago. Soon thereafter, a man was
shot and another was punched in the left eye. A Chicago attorney
yesterday fingered Allen as the man responsible for the punching and
has filed a civil suit in Cook County District Court seeking damages
well in excess of $50,000.
"Tony Allen is the one who punched [my client] in the left eye,"
attorney Rahsaan Gordon said yesterday. "My client has a blowout
fracture of the left eye socket and that was [caused by] Tony Allen."
The injured party is Nigel Odum.
Allen's Chicago-based attorney, Michael Zaslavsky, refused to
comment on Gordon's civil suit, filed ...