February 02, 2017
Online ticket sellers have seen reduced demand for tickets to Super Bowl LI this year — a marketplace development the NFL has helped orchestrate through the use of its own private equity arm, 32 Equity, to combat ticket "bots" and the legal can of worms they've opened by assuming greater control of ticket sales.
January 14, 2016
A San Francisco 49ers season ticket holder has dropped his putative class action in California federal court claiming that the team and Ticketmaster harmed competition among ticket resale websites by restricting fans' access to their own tickets until shortly before gameday.
December 23, 2015
The San Francisco 49ers and Ticketmaster on Wednesday asked a California federal court to put an end to a putative class action by a season ticket holder who claims a restriction requiring tickets to be printed out within 72 hours of 49ers' games harms competition in the secondary ticket market.
October 09, 2015
The San Francisco 49ers and Ticketmaster urged a California federal court Thursday to throw out a putative class action filed by a season ticket holder who claims the team and company are hindering competition in the secondary ticket market with a ticket-printing restriction, arguing a single team's tickets are not a "market."
August 06, 2015
San Francisco 49ers season ticket holders sued the NFL team and Ticketmaster LLC in California federal court Wednesday, claiming they stiff-armed competition among ticket resale websites by restricting the secondary market for 49ers tickets to a Ticketmaster-run site until shortly before game day.