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Louisiana joins suit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for Monopolizing Markets Across the Live Concert Industry

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.