Live Nation, Ticketmaster Want DOJ Antitrust Case Moved to D.C.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. wants the Justice Department’s antitrust case seeking to undo its merger with ticketing giant Ticketmaster transferred from New York federal court to Washington, D.C.

The DOJ’s lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York is a “naked attempt” to impair a 2010 consent decree that allowed Live Nation’s merger with Ticketmaster to go through under certain conditions, they said in a brief submitted late July 19.

That decree, reached in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, designated that court as the forum for any attempts to modify it. ...