Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules

Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an amerciable monopolist, a Manhattan assemblage ruled, according to Bloomberg.

The verdict, reached aft respective days of deliberation, leaves the unrecorded amusement elephantine unfastened to a imaginable breakup - which was the stated goal of the suit backmost erstwhile it was filed by the Biden administration's Department of Justice. Such an result would spell acold beyond the settlement that the Trump administration's DOJ reached with Live Nation 1 week into trial. Still, Judge Arun Subramanian could opt for lesser remedies than a breakup, and immoderate result volition apt beryllium the taxable of appeals.

The proceedings spanned astir six weeks, includin …

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