Ticketmaster parent Live Nation has moved to transfer a historic antitrust case filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The company argues that the terms of a consent decree mandate that the case be litigated in the nation’s capital rather than Manhattan.
The DOJ, along with 30 state and district attorneys general, sued the live events industry giant in May for Sherman Act violations in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The original complaint alleged that Live Nation-Ticketmaster maintained an illegal stranglehold on the live entertainment industry through its monopolistic and anticompetitive practices.
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