The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld an order for Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones to pay upwards of $12.4 million in damages to two former Las Vegas strip club bouncers who were shot in 2007, the Associated Press reports.
One of the men - Tommy Urbanski - was left paralyzed due to the incident.
An Apr. 2013 article from Michael O'Keefe of the New York Daily News says that Urbanski and his estranged wife Kathy had filed papers with a court in Ohio seeking 25 percent of Pacman's earnings.
"I'm not looking to get rich, I'm just looking to survive," Urbanski said at the time. "I'd be homeless if I didn't have savings or the people who have stepped up to help me when I needed it most."
Now, the unanimous high-court ruling, issued Thursday, means Jones will have to pay the entirety of the $12.4 million to Urbanski and his ex-wife and the other man injured in the strip-club melee.
"The justices upheld a trial judge's decision to remove the NFL from the case, and rejected Jones' contention that damage awards for Urbanski and co-worker Aaron Cudworth didn't legally correspond to findings of liability."
While the court recognizes that Jones was not, in fact, the gunman, he is said to have "instigated a brawl by throwing handfuls of cash toward dancers inside the crowded club."
Jones, whose Bengals lost in the NFL's Wild Card round of the playoffs last weekend to the Indianapolis Colts, just finished his eighth year in the league.
The notorious troublemaker has found a way to cool his bad-boy ways and has been incident-free for several seasons now.
The ruling is an ugly reminder of the issues that plagued the early portion of the talented defensive back's NFL career.
