TicketNews: Live Nation used a pause in witness testimony to press its latest effort to narrow the antitrust case against it before jurors can weigh the full record, filing a motion for judgment as a matter of law (1362 – embedded below) that argues the states have not presented sufficient evidence to support their claims. At the same time, Judge Arun Subramanian issued a notable ruling on trial secrecy (1368 – embedded below), ordering a broad set of materials to be publicly filed with only limited redactions for competitively sensitive pricing and payment information.
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I think that records about this sort of thing should be more publicly accessible. I understand that in certain circumstances, theres definitely a necessity to keep certain records sealed, But in this case I feel like these are the exact documents that should be already public knowledge. Like we should know what is going on behind the scenes in this short of environment, and I think that applies to all business ventures. Like how much things cost, why they cost that much how much they make. It's good information for the public. It gives the public the opportunity to better identify potential antitrust cases, without the government having to subpoena them. It's like a sort of public check on power, because to be completely honest there's not that much trust currently in the governments ability to have these checks happen, let alone there being an actual outcome of most of these antitrust cases anyway.
This case needs to be more transparent, by far. Nothing, unless it provides PII on people such as witnesses, should be kept a secret, especially with cases like this where it directly impacts people in the US and even internationally. There is nothing that I see reasonable to be kept classified, and I find it quite strange they’re pushing so hard for this to be classified and sealed. While I understand that Ticket Master doesn’t want to lose money for a case like this, they have to be held accountable for this mess they caused, and understand this was coming for a while. It’s extremely disappointing that they are trying to deny accountability over this when they very clearly are in the wrong, in no world is it acceptable to hide prices like how they did and currently are doing, have a monopoly over the entire industry, and then claim they do not.
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