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The Justice Department sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America and asking a court to break up the system that ...
United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, following the Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy in 2022.
The Justice Department’s massive antitrust suit against Live Nation on Thursday reflects widespread frustration among fans and concertgoers everywhere who are fed up with confusing fees, ticket ...
Ticketmaster and Live Nation want a judge to boot 27 states from the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit. The event goliath argued Wednesday that the states can't prove a direct injury to their residents.
“Calling Ticketmaster a monopoly may be a PR win for the DOJ in the short term, but it will lose in court because it ignores the basic economics of live entertainment,” Live Nation added. It said most service fees go to venues and that outside competition has ”steadily eroded" Ticketmaster's market share.
Ticketmaster controls more than 80 per cent of the market for primary ticket sales in the US. It maintains that control by striking deals with the nation’s largest venues, ensuring that any ...
Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether the excessive fines clause of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments.
The company has been under investigation by the DOJ for two years, and has been the subject of such claims since Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, a move that was challenged but ...