The Live Nation trial restarts with a ‘velvet hammer’

After a chaotic week pursuing the Justice Department's mid-trial settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, the antitrust proceedings picked backmost up amazingly smoothly connected Monday - this time, with dozens of states starring the case.

This isn't the result the states primitively wanted. Out of concerns astir being capable to efficaciously instrumentality implicit the lawsuit and fearfulness that the assemblage would beryllium prejudiced by the shakeup, they requested a mistrial, which would person restarted the tribunal conflict astatine an chartless aboriginal date. But an irritated Judge Arun Subramanian seemed apt to contradict the request, and erstwhile the states figured retired however to clasp the DOJ's adept witn …

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