Which is why, shouldn't the right course of action be for that person to point out the potential problem (and in writing is fine), and a legal dept or exec to c

Which is why, shouldn't the right course of action be for that person to point out the potential problem (and in writing is fine), and a legal dept or exec to come back with a theory of why it's fine and we are going to continue doing it? - It's not like it's all that hard under the current legal system. Things are much more likely to go sideways if (a) there was already some background feeling that this person had to go, or (b) the person makes a nuisance of themselves after legal or higher-ups have already decided that no, this was fine. Seems to me when a manager "jumps straight to firing" someone, either they are insane or there is something missing to the story. Insane is very much not impossible (and disfunction itself obviously) but missing story is not impossible either.