Lawyer Denied Entry to Rockettes Show After Being Recognized By Facial Recognition Tech

Reps for Radio City Music Hall’s parent company, MSG Entertainment, said the attorney was prevented from seeing the show due to an existing rule that bars lawyers in active litigation with the company from attending events at MSG venues.

Attorney Kelly Conlon recently accompanied her daughter on a Girl Scout field trip to Radio City Music Hall. They were there to watch the Christmas Spectacular. Instead of seeing the Rockettes, Conlon entered a situation like something from the Twilight Zone or Black Mirror.

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The Radio City Rockettes perform onstage during the opening night of the 2019 Christmas Spectacular Starring The Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall on November 13, 2019 in New York City.

Security pulled Conlon aside, asked for her ID, and informed her she couldn’t get in. Facial Recognition Technology identified her as an employee of a law firm embroiled in a legal battle with Madison Square Garden (MSG) Entertainment, the company that owns the famous venue.

“It was pretty simultaneous, I think, to me, going through the metal detector,” Conlon told NBC New York, “that I heard over an intercom or loudspeaker. I heard them say a woman with long dark hair and a gray scarf.”

Conlon said the guards told her they knew she was an attorney as an explanation for booting her from the event. But while she is employed by the New Jersey law firm Davis, Saperstein and Salomon — which NBC NY reports has been entangled with MSG for years over a personal injury case that occurred in an eaterie owned by the company — Conlon said she’s “not an attorney that works on any cases against MSG” and doesn’t even practice in New York.

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