But he said she had "a perfectly valid remedy" under state law, filing a malpractice suit.
His action was followed immediately by a challenge to the new law, filed in Federal District Court in North Carolina by the American Civil Liberties Union, the A.C.L.U. of North Carolina Legal Foundation, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
Potentially complicating the issue, critics of the broadened emergency manager law filed signatures last month on petitions calling for a statewide vote on the issue.
A memorandum of law filed with the court on Friday by Texas Rangers Baseball Partners, the entity that is being sold, does not address the statements by West, the H.S.G. lawyer.
Wednesday's hearing came in a challenge to the law filed by the Thomas More Law Center, a public interest law firm in Ann Arbor, Mich., that describes itself as "the Christian response to the A.C.L.U".
After opponents of the law filed suit saying it impinged on free speech, a federal judge ruled over the summer that there was no evidence that restricting per-signature payments prevented fraud.
The attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, was among the first attorneys general to try to overturn the federal health care law, filing a lawsuit minutes after President Obama signed the measure last spring.
A memorandum of law filed by the bank last December in a related lawsuit stated: "Because 1CMP is private property, JPMC as its owner has the fundamental right, protected by the federal Constitution, to exclude the public from the plaza".
At issue is a constitutional challenge to the 2008 law filed on behalf of human rights, labor, legal, and news media organizations whose work requires sensitive telephone and e-mail communication with people abroad.
A brief defending the Washington law filed by the American Public Health Association and other groups said there were other collateral positive effects, including reductions in suicides and accidents, that gun control opponents overlook or underestimate.
Hartmut Zapp, a retired professor of church law, filed a legal challenge in 2007, arguing that under Catholic doctrine, Church membership was determined by a person's beliefs and not by a financial relationship.
