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These East Side legal eagles used to have access to prime viewing at Madison Square Garden.

Now they can’t even score the cheap seats.

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, new court papers allege.

According to the snubbed lawyers, ticket access was choked off Sept. 7 — two weeks after they filed a lawsuit against MSG on behalf of ticket resellers.

The lights-out notice declared the historic arena was “banning” the firm’s “attorneys from entering venues owned and operated” by MSG, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Thursday.

It came as a surprise to most of the firm’s team who aren’t involved in the legal brawl with MSG, and who now find themselves “pariahs,” the Thursday filing claims.

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Partners of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP
Law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron has filed suit against Madison Square Garden for banning its lawyers from Knicks and Ranger games.Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP
Larry Hutcher
Founding partner Larry Hutcher says his Knicks season tickets that he’s held for 30 years were unfairly revoked.Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP
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But firm co-founder and managing partner Larry Hutcher is feeling the pain. Hutcher’s held two season tickets for the Knicks since 1976 and has already promised to dole them out to charities, clients, friends and family before their revocation, the suit says.

MSG has claimed Hutcher’s tickets expired, but Hutcher isn’t buying it. He says he already paid in full – $18,000 for the 2022 to 2023 season, the court papers claim.

“The reality is that MSG issued this notice to plaintiffs to harass and intimidate because certain individual plaintiffs represent parties adverse to MSG,” the suit charges.

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James Dolan in front of a New York Knicks sign.
MSG allegedly banned the law firm because they represent clients in a suit against MSG.Corbis via Getty Images
New York Knicks basketball court.
MSG in June banned at least two other firms that were involved with litigation against the company.NBAE via Getty Images
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New York Knicks owner James L. Dolan sits courtside during the game against the Memphis Grizzlies on February 2, 2022 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
James Dolan likely hasn’t found much to be happy about in watching the Knicks this season. Getty ImagesGetty Images
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The suit is asking for an emergency order from a judge to reinstate Hutcher’s season tickets and overturn the ban against the firm.

MSG previously banned at least two other firms involved in merger litigation earlier this year.

MSG spokesperson Natalie Ravitz told The Post the company in June put in place a policy barring lawyers involved in litigation against MSG from attending events — until the cases are resolved. She added the ban reflects the “need to protect against improper disclosure and discovery.”

“While we understand this is disappointing to some individuals, MSG has both a right and obligation to protect itself during litigation procedures,” Ravitz said.

Ravitz said after the firm filed suit they refunded Hutcher for his season tickets.

“When the firm of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron filed a lawsuit against us in September, their attorneys fell under that policy. Pursuant to that policy, a refund was issued to Mr. Hutcher,” Ravitz said.

“The courts have repeatedly affirmed that MSG has the right to refuse to offer tickets to anyone, for any reason at all, as long as civil rights laws are not violated, and that a ticket is a ‘revocable license’ which may be revoked, at will, at any time, by the owner of the venue,” the statement said.

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