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Live Nation, Ticketmaster say US DOJ tying claim suffers from fatal defect

By Khushita Vasant and Clayton Vickers
  • 01 Nov 2024 01:06
  • 01 Nov 2024 01:24
Live Nation and subsidiary Ticketmaster told a US federal judge that accusations of an anticompetitive tying claim in a government monopoly suit suffer from a “fatal” defect in that the lawsuit does not allege the companies ever made a tying agreement with artists.
The Department of Justice and a group

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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