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What does the Bar have to say about being a customer of a business you're suing. Wouldn't this be more of a concern for the law firm than the venue?

But I can see how this has a chilling effect if you can lose access to goods and services because you're taking legal action against the company. Reminds me of the story I heard, though I forget the details (or even if it was true), about someone retaining numerous law firms which made it nearly impossible to find a lawyer who could sue them without it being a conflict-of-interest.

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I think the issue is that MSG is too big of an organization to fairly institute a policy like this. It's like [FAANG of choice] refusing to serve someone because their [mother/spouse/hairdresser] posted a bad review of the coffee at [FAANG's] office in [fill in a city].

Maybe said company can have such a policy, but they probably shouldn't.

She's only tangentially related not directly on the team, though it would imo be odder for MSG to know the entirety and status of everyone working for someone suing them so it's simpler to just ban everyone employed at the firm.

Imagine this system, but for chargebacks. "You issued a charge back against us once, so you're no longer allowed in any of our physical locations ever again. You should have talked to us first."

You might be thinking of the Sopranos:

SPOILER

When Tony and Carmine are getting divorced, Tony consults with every lawyer in town, creating a conflict of interest and not allowing Carmine to use them.

*Carmella, not Carmine, lol. Carmine is another mob boss.

Also a plot point in Noah Baumbach's movie Marriage Story.

Although — I’ve only seen this on, like, other online chitchats so take it with a heap of salt, but — I’m under the impression that the main thing accomplished if someone tried these sorts of antics in real life would be a reasonably pissed off judge with reason to believe that one party wasn’t engaging with the legal system in good faith.

I have personal experience with this. Small town. Handful of law firms. None of them would take a case against a local small business because they all had some kind of relationship with that business.

The case was strong, and I had no trouble hiring a reputable firm one town over to litigate, but it was inconvenient and one can imagine a scenario in which there is no "one town over" with alternatives.

What does the bar have to say about facial recognition for all its members being easily available to anyone with money, apparently? Where does the data come from?

Imagine doing a chargeback on Google for a bug in their app purchase, and your Gmail accounts being revoked.

Didn't that happen?

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016389

As someone not involved in the suit?

It was here on HN, but I also don't remember the details. I think it was like a big company had a relationship with almost all layers or something like this.

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