I highly doubt it. Three months of being unable to access the site, vs “a three month ban”. It’s a distinction without a difference, and I don’t think anyone here is fighting over the word “ban”.
More important here is WHY the ban happened. You talk about “users who made valid reports” and “use of soft skills” etc. But the original message made a number of claims:
It’s those claims, not “attempts to reign in the prior thread”, that were used as justification for the suspension. This was not trying to “make a forum ease off of a topic while everyone’s emotionally heated”. When that happens, the FORUM MODS, not the CoC WG, take action (putting a thread into slow mode, for example).
So regardless of whether you call it a “ban” or a “suspension”, it’s those purported crimes that are under discussion, and those are the ones for which there’s been no communication and certainly no litigation. Please, go through that list and show us where anyone attempted to “use soft skills” to deal with things prior to the ban.