A federal magistrate judge has awarded Don Lemon more than $77,000 in attorney fees, after finding that a Hamptons bartender deleted evidence in a lawsuit accusing the CNN host of assault and battery stemming from an alleged encounter in 2018.
The ruling, which spelled out the reasonable efforts of Lemon’s Armstrong Teasdale defense counsel, approved less than the more than $106,000 Lemon had sought against the plaintiff, Dustin Hice.