Lawyers Barred by Madison Square Garden Found a Way Back In MSG Entertainment resorted to facial recognition technology to kick out legal foes, but some have undermined the ban using a law passed to protect theater critics in 1941.Since last summer, MSG Entertainment, which operates Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, along with other venues and restaurants, has sent letters to adversarial lawyers at around 90 firms: “Neither you, nor any other attorney employed at your firm, may enter the Company’s venues until final resolution of the litigation.” The purpose, according to MSG Entertainment officials, is to prevent the collection of evidence “outside proper litigation discovery channels.” Benjamin Noren, an employment lawyer, called that “ludicrous.” His firm is representing ticket resellers in a lawsuit against the company, and he is on the banned list though he is not involved in the case.He called the ban “a transparent effort” by MSG Entertainment and its chief executive, James Dolan, “to stop attorneys from suing them.” A ban based on employment status alone would generally be difficult to enforce, because someone else could always buy the ticket.So far, these suits have been the most effective legal strategy for getting some lawyers back into some venues: They have led to preliminary injunctions that partially lifted the ban under a state anti-discrimination law that prohibits “wrongful refusal of admission” to “places of public entertainment or amusement.” MSG Entertainment can still refuse to sell the lawyers tickets, but it cannot refuse entry to the lawyers at those firms if they show up with a valid ticket — though it applies only to concerts and shows, not to sporting events.“We continue to vigorously defend and enforce our policy, and remain confident the Appellate Division will rule in our favor on our full appeal.” In court in October, a lawyer for the company, Randy Mastro, told the State Supreme Court judge, Lyle Frank, that “lawyers sometimes alienate people.” Mr. Mastro said he had experienced being on a banned list himself when he cracked down on the mafia as a federal prosecutor."