Samuel L. Davis
Role at the time: Partner at the firm employing excluded attorney Kelly Conlon
Statement summary
Davis calls excluding lawyers because of their employer's litigation collective punishment.
“This whole scheme is a pretext for doing collective punishment on adversaries who would dare sue MSG in their multi-billion dollar network”
Why we used this label
Reference point: MSG's policy of excluding lawyers at firms suing it. Davis, a partner at the firm where Kelly Conlon worked, calls the policy a pretext for collective punishment of people who sue MSG. Challenged the characterization loses because Davis rejects the policy itself rather than MSG's description of it.