Nearly five weeks after a jury in the Southern District of New York returned a verdict finding Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster liable on every single antitrust claim brought against them, the company is making its first serious play to undo that result on paper — and the coalition of state attorneys general and the Department of Justice isn't having it.
In a pair of memoranda filed June 18 in United States v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., plaintiffs filed back-to-back oppositions to Live Nation and Ticketmaster's post-trial motions: one seeking judgment as a matter of law under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b), the other seeking a new trial under Rule 59. Both motions are standard post-verdict moves for a defendant that just lost everything at trial. Both are also, according to most legal efforts, long shots.
Here's what's actually happening, why it matters, and where the case goes from here.
First, a Reminder of What the Jury Actually Found
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