Article: CIVIL SUIT FILED AGAINST ALLEN

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 ...

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