Today, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and her fellow Attorneys General of Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, 29 other states and the District of Columbia against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolization and other unlawful conduct in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. 

The department and its now-expanded group of 40 co-plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in the Southern District of New York. The amended complaint also alleges additional details about Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s anticompetitive course of conduct in markets across the live entertainment industry.

“The conduct outlined in our complaint violates the law. Anticompetitive conduct hurts consumers by blocking choices and increasing prices. I look forward to resolving this case in a way that protects the public and Louisianans from such anticompetitive practices in the future,” said Attorney General Murrill.

Read the amended complaint here.