TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 28, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit seeking to break up entertainment industry giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit could go to trial in early 2026. At the first hearing in the antitrust lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian called the timeline "appropriate" given the scope of the case, but did not set a firm date. Live Nation said it would push to transfer the case to Washington, D.C., where a judge weighed and approved a consent decree in 2010 letting the merger take effect, Reuters reports. The state of Tennessee joined the suit in May.