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Under the policy, those attorneys are only allowed back at MSG Entertainment events once the legal cases have ended. 

Samuel Davis, from Davis, Saperstein, and Salomon, where Conlon works, was upset at MSG’s tactics.

"Separating a mother from her daughter and Girl Scouts that she was watching over and to do it under the pretext of protecting any disclosure of litigation information is absolutely absurd," Davis said.

"The fact that they're using facial recognition technology to do this is frightening. It's just un-American to do this."

MSG Entertainment justified its use of facial recognition technology in a statement: "We have always made it clear to our guests and to the public that we use facial recognition as one of our tools to provide a safe and secure environment and we will continue to use it to protect against the entry of individuals who we have prohibited from entering our venues." 

Burns & Harris and Davidoff Hutcher & Citron banned

Attorney Nicolette Landi went to see Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas To All Show” at Madison Square Garden last week. Her firm, Burns and Harris, represents a client who was allegedly injured on a staircase at the venue.

Landi was spotted by the Facial Recognition software and denied entry to the event.

According to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Landi and all members of her law firm, received a Nov. 14 letter banning them from events at all of Dolan’s properties. The company sued MSG and Dolan on Dec. 17.

“By continuing to impose bans against adverse attorneys, despite this court’s recent order in the Hutcher matter, MSG makes clear that it intends to intimidate adverse litigants by any means necessary,” said Landi’s lawsuit.

“Nearly 60 lawyers at the commercial law and government relations firm of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron have been banned from Rangers and Knicks games” because their clients are suing MSG, according to court documents.

The Hutcher lawyers were blacklisted from events on September 7 after filing a lawsuit against MSG on behalf of ticket resellers.