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Fearing Retaliation, Live Nation’s Competitors Score Key Ruling in DOJ Lawsuit
A judge in the DOJ/Live Nation lawsuit issued a key ruling after competitors voiced concerns of retaliation from the concert promoter.
The federal judge overseeing the DOJ’s monopoly lawsuit against Live Nation established a protective order this week to restrict the concert and ticketing giant’s in-house legal team from accessing particularly sensitive documents from their competitors, with the decision coming days after several competing companies voiced retaliation concerns. Aside from more generalized concerns about dissemination of company documents they were compelled to give to the DOJ, they all referenced the claims detailed in the lawsuit in which Live Nation was accused of retaliating against competitors who did business with ticketing services other than Ticketmaster. In the letter, AEG attorneys Justin Bernick and Claude Szyfer further specified concerns for Wall to get access to the most classified of documents given his business-oriented responsibilities outside of the antitrust suit.
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