January 12, 2018
Live Nation Entertainment has agreed to pay Songkick parent company Complete Entertainment Resources Group $110 million to end an antitrust suit scheduled for trial in California federal court this month and to purchase several of its assets, the concert ticket company announced Friday.
January 01, 2018
Trial mavens will have plenty of drama to catch in 2018, from heavyweight technology disputes between Apple and Samsung and Waymo and Uber to the federal government’s unique False Claims Act suit seeking to recoup millions of dollars in sponsorship money from disgraced cycling star Lance Armstrong.
October 20, 2017
A California federal magistrate judge has advised that Ticketmaster LLC not be sanctioned over its late production of thousands of discovery documents in a pending lawsuit over its alleged monopoly on ticket sales and hacking of a rival's trade secrets.
October 17, 2017
Songkick asked a California federal court on Monday to sanction Ticketmaster LLC and Live Nation Entertainment Inc. over their late production of thousands of discovery documents two months before trial in its lawsuit over their alleged monopoly on ticket sales.
October 16, 2017
A California federal judge on Monday tossed Live Nation and Ticketmaster's bid for a quick win on some of Songkick's antitrust claims against the ticketing giant and its subsidiary over their alleged monopoly on ticket sales, saying the parties disagree on the facts but there is "no question" that the suit stems from a restraint of trade.
October 03, 2017
Live Nation and Ticketmaster asked a California federal judge on Tuesday not to sanction them for failing to produce nearly 4,000 documents during initial discovery in Songkick's suit alleging the companies have a monopoly on ticket sales, saying the human error was an unintentional oversight and reflects a minuscule fraction of the documents it produced without a hitch.
February 15, 2017
Songkick, a concert ticketing startup, tacked on new claims Wednesday in its ongoing antitrust suit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster over their alleged monopoly of ticket sales by claiming that one of its former executives who landed at Ticketmaster unlawfully accessed its computer systems to steal trade secrets.
November 10, 2016
A California federal judge on Thursday rejected Songkick's theory that larger rival Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster wrongly destroyed evidence in an antitrust suit attacking the companies' ticketing empire, saying the companies didn't have a duty to preserve certain employee emails.
October 06, 2016
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and subsidiary Ticketmaster LLC destroyed evidence in an antitrust suit attacking the companies' ticketing empire, presale ticket seller Songkick told a California federal court Wednesday in a motion to compel production.
May 11, 2016
A California federal judge stuck to her word Wednesday and handed Ticketmaster and Live Nation a pair of wins in concert ticketer Songkick's antitrust suit against them, ruling Songkick can't challenge the companies' merger or block them from levying service fees on presale tickets.