{
  "publication": "Live Index",
  "dataset": "Live Nation–Ticketmaster Antitrust Case Timeline",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://liveindex.io/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust",
  "case": {
    "caption": "United States et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster L.L.C.",
    "docket": "1:24-cv-03973 (S.D.N.Y.)",
    "court": "U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York",
    "judge": "Judge Arun Subramanian",
    "filed": "2024-05-23",
    "plaintiffStateCount": 34
  },
  "lastModified": "2026-08-20",
  "license": "Source documents are public records; Live Index compilation attribution requested",
  "note": "One federal action that diverged procedurally in March 2026 into a DOJ settlement track and a continuing state-plaintiff track. Tracks are not separate lawsuits.",
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "2010-01-25-merger-decree",
      "date": "2010-01-25",
      "displayDate": "25 January 2010",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "context",
      "headline": "Ticketmaster–Live Nation merger cleared under a consent decree",
      "summary": "The United States and plaintiff states brought a merger case against Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation in the District of Columbia, No. 1:10-cv-00139, and the merger proceeded subject to a negotiated final judgment rather than being blocked.",
      "whyItMatters": "The conduct at issue in the 2024 action took place while the merged company was operating under that earlier decree.",
      "source": {
        "title": "U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. and Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-et-al-v-ticketmaster-entertainment-inc-et-al",
        "date": "2020-01-28"
      },
      "documentType": "Case record",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2020-01-28-amended-final-judgment",
      "date": "2020-01-28",
      "displayDate": "28 January 2020",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "decree",
      "headline": "Court enters an amended final judgment in the 2010 merger case",
      "summary": "The court modified and extended the 2010 consent decree, clarifying the prohibition on conditioning or retaliating against venues over their choice of ticketing provider and adding compliance machinery.",
      "whyItMatters": "This is the behavioural decree the plaintiff states later cited when arguing that behavioural relief alone had not disciplined the company's conduct.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Amended Final Judgment",
        "publisher": "U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (via DOJ Antitrust Division)",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1241016/dl",
        "date": "2020-01-28"
      },
      "documentType": "Amended final judgment",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2024-05-23-complaint",
      "date": "2024-05-23",
      "displayDate": "23 May 2024",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "filing",
      "headline": "United States and plaintiff states file the monopolisation complaint",
      "summary": "The Department of Justice, joined by a coalition of state attorneys general, filed a civil antitrust complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging that Live Nation and Ticketmaster unlawfully maintained monopolies across the live concert industry.",
      "whyItMatters": "This filing, not the 2010 decree, is the action that produced the 2026 verdict and the 2026 settlement.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Complaint",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1353101/dl",
        "date": "2024-05-23"
      },
      "documentType": "Complaint",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2024-08-30-amended-complaint",
      "date": "2024-08-30",
      "displayDate": "30 August 2024",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "filing",
      "headline": "Amended complaint filed",
      "summary": "Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, the operative pleading for the remainder of the case; a redline against the original was filed on 19 August 2024.",
      "whyItMatters": "The amended complaint defines the claims the jury was later asked to decide.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Amended Complaint",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/media/1370191/dl",
        "date": "2024-08-30"
      },
      "documentType": "Amended complaint",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2024-10-03-transfer-denied",
      "date": "2024-10-03",
      "displayDate": "3 October 2024",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "filing",
      "headline": "Motion to transfer venue denied",
      "summary": "The court denied the defendants' motion to move the case out of the Southern District of New York.",
      "whyItMatters": "The case stayed before the court that ultimately tried it.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Opinion Denying Motion to Transfer",
        "publisher": "U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. (via DOJ Antitrust Division)",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1394321/dl",
        "date": "2024-10-03"
      },
      "documentType": "Opinion",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-03-14-motion-to-dismiss-denied",
      "date": "2025-03-14",
      "displayDate": "14 March 2025",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "filing",
      "headline": "Motion to dismiss denied",
      "summary": "The court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss, allowing the monopolisation and tying claims to proceed to discovery and trial.",
      "whyItMatters": "Survival of a motion to dismiss establishes only that the claims were adequately pleaded, not that they were proved.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Opinion Denying Motion to Dismiss",
        "publisher": "U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. (via DOJ Antitrust Division)",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1394356/dl",
        "date": "2025-03-14"
      },
      "documentType": "Opinion",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-03-28-answer",
      "date": "2025-03-28",
      "displayDate": "28 March 2025",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "filing",
      "headline": "Defendants answer the amended complaint",
      "summary": "Live Nation and Ticketmaster filed their answer, denying the allegations of unlawful monopoly maintenance and tying.",
      "whyItMatters": "The answer joins issue and sets the disputed facts for trial.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Defendants' Answer to Plaintiffs' Amended Complaint",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1440846/dl",
        "date": "2025-03-28"
      },
      "documentType": "Answer",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-02-18-summary-judgment",
      "date": "2026-02-18",
      "displayDate": "18 February 2026",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "filing",
      "headline": "Summary judgment granted in part and denied in part",
      "summary": "The court resolved the defendants' summary-judgment motion and the parties' motions to exclude expert testimony in part for each side, leaving core liability questions for the jury.",
      "whyItMatters": "The ruling fixed which claims and which expert evidence reached the jury two weeks before trial.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Opinion Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion for Summary Judgment and Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony",
        "publisher": "U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. (via DOJ Antitrust Division)",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1441791/dl",
        "date": "2026-02-18"
      },
      "documentType": "Opinion",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-02-trial-begins",
      "date": "2026-03-02",
      "displayDate": "2 March 2026",
      "track": "shared",
      "category": "trial",
      "headline": "Trial begins in the Southern District of New York",
      "summary": "Trial opened on 2 March 2026 with the United States and the plaintiff states still litigating together.",
      "whyItMatters": "Everything before this date is common to both later tracks; the divergence happens one week into trial.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Attorney General Bonta Asks Court to Break Up Live Nation/Ticketmaster",
        "publisher": "California Attorney General",
        "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-asks-court-break-live-nationticketmaster",
        "date": "2026-05-21"
      },
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-09-notice-of-settlement",
      "date": "2026-03-09",
      "displayDate": "9 March 2026",
      "track": "doj",
      "category": "settlement",
      "headline": "Department of Justice files a notice of settlement",
      "summary": "One week into trial the United States filed a notice of settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster, opening the statutory path toward a negotiated final judgment.",
      "whyItMatters": "A notice of settlement commits the United States to a proposed judgment; it does not itself impose any obligation on the defendants.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Notice of Settlement",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1443801/dl",
        "date": "2026-03-09"
      },
      "documentType": "Notice of settlement",
      "status": "Filed",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-09-states-continue",
      "date": "2026-03-09",
      "displayDate": "9 March 2026",
      "track": "states",
      "category": "trial",
      "headline": "State plaintiffs reject the settlement and continue the trial",
      "summary": "The state attorneys general declined to join the settlement announced by the Department of Justice and continued litigating the case to verdict.",
      "whyItMatters": "This is the procedural fork: from here the same action proceeds on two tracks with different relief.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Attorney General Bonta Asks Court to Break Up Live Nation/Ticketmaster",
        "publisher": "California Attorney General",
        "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-asks-court-break-live-nationticketmaster",
        "date": "2026-05-21"
      },
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-15-verdict",
      "date": "2026-04-15",
      "displayDate": "15 April 2026",
      "track": "states",
      "category": "verdict",
      "headline": "Jury returns a verdict for the plaintiff states",
      "summary": "After a five-week trial the jury found that Ticketmaster unlawfully maintains a monopoly in ticketing services at major concert venues, that Live Nation has a monopoly in large amphitheatres used by artists, and that Live Nation unlawfully requires artists using its amphitheatres to also use its promotion services. The jury also found that fans were overcharged. New York's release states an overcharge of $1.72 per ticket for New Yorkers.",
      "whyItMatters": "Liability was decided by a jury; the scope of relief was expressly reserved for a separate remedies proceeding before the judge.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Attorney General James and Coalition of States Win Trial Against Live Nation and Ticketmaster",
        "publisher": "New York Attorney General",
        "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-and-coalition-states-win-trial-against-live-nation-and",
        "date": "2026-04-15"
      },
      "status": "Liability found; remedies reserved",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-07-remedies-hearing",
      "date": "2026-05-07",
      "displayDate": "7 May 2026",
      "track": "states",
      "category": "remedies",
      "headline": "Court directs the plaintiff states to submit a remedies framework",
      "summary": "At a hearing on 7 May 2026 and by further order, the court directed the plaintiff states to file an initial set of proposed remedies together with the fact discovery they anticipate seeking.",
      "whyItMatters": "The remedies phase is a separate bench proceeding, so the relief the states sought was filed rather than awarded.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Plaintiff States' letter and initial proposed remedies (ECF No. 1497)",
        "publisher": "New York Attorney General (filed S.D.N.Y.)",
        "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Live%20Nation%20SDNY%20ECF%20No%201497%20COMPLETE.pdf",
        "date": "2026-05-21"
      },
      "documentType": "Court direction, recorded in ECF No. 1497",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-21-states-remedies-proposal",
      "date": "2026-05-21",
      "displayDate": "21 May 2026",
      "track": "states",
      "category": "remedies",
      "headline": "Plaintiff states file an initial remedies proposal seeking divestiture",
      "summary": "A coalition of 34 attorneys general filed an initial set of proposed remedies asking the court to order Live Nation to divest Ticketmaster and to divest a sufficient number of Live Nation-owned large amphitheatres, along with limits on re-entry and future exclusive ticketing contracts, a ban on conditioning venue access to content on ticketing choice, a new independent monitor, and monetary relief in the form of damages, civil penalties, disgorgement and restitution.",
      "whyItMatters": "These are remedies sought on an initial and expressly reservable basis, not remedies ordered; the states also state that they may seek different or additional relief as discovery proceeds.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Plaintiff States' Initial Proposed Remedies (ECF No. 1497-1)",
        "publisher": "New York Attorney General (filed S.D.N.Y.)",
        "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Live%20Nation%20SDNY%20ECF%20No%201497%20COMPLETE.pdf",
        "date": "2026-05-21"
      },
      "documentType": "Remedies proposal",
      "status": "Filed; remedies discovery proposed",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-12-proposed-final-judgment",
      "date": "2026-06-12",
      "displayDate": "12 June 2026",
      "track": "doj",
      "category": "settlement",
      "headline": "Proposed final judgment and stipulation filed",
      "summary": "The United States filed a proposed final judgment, a stipulation and order, and an explanation of procedures under the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act. The proposed judgment runs eight years from entry, requires Ticketmaster to offer major concert venues fully or partially non-exclusive primary ticketing contracts, caps fully exclusive contracts at four years, bars conditioning and retaliation over a venue's choice of ticketing provider, provides for an independent monitor, and requires notice to thirteen listed divestiture venues that booking or promotion contracts be terminated or brought into compliance.",
      "whyItMatters": "The proposed judgment is a settlement filed for approval, not an order: it binds no one until the court enters it.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Proposed Final Judgment",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1446036/dl",
        "date": "2026-06-12"
      },
      "documentType": "Proposed final judgment",
      "status": "Filed, awaiting Tunney Act review",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-29-competitive-impact-statement",
      "date": "2026-06-29",
      "displayDate": "29 June 2026",
      "track": "doj",
      "category": "settlement",
      "headline": "Competitive impact statement filed",
      "summary": "The United States filed the competitive impact statement required by the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, setting out the practices alleged and how the proposed judgment is said to address them, and starting the public-comment stage of Tunney Act review.",
      "whyItMatters": "This is the latest verified filing on the DOJ track; entry of the proposed judgment remains with the court.",
      "source": {
        "title": "Competitive Impact Statement",
        "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
        "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1450496/dl",
        "date": "2026-06-29"
      },
      "documentType": "Competitive impact statement",
      "status": "Filed, public-comment stage",
      "lastVerified": "2026-08-20"
    }
  ],
  "remedies": [
    {
      "id": "ticketmaster-divestiture",
      "label": "Divestiture of Ticketmaster",
      "character": "Structural",
      "doj": "Not required. The judgment contemplates a sale only conditionally: if Live Nation sells the Ticketmaster business, certain sections are deemed expired.",
      "states": "Sought. An order requiring Live Nation to divest Ticketmaster with the assets, contracts, personnel and systems needed for it to compete standalone.",
      "difference": "One leaves ownership intact and regulates conduct; the other separates the ticketing business from the promoter and venue business.",
      "note": "a,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "amphitheatre-divestiture",
      "label": "Amphitheatre divestiture",
      "character": "Structural",
      "doj": "Contract-level only. Thirteen named venues must be given notice that booking or promotion contracts will be terminated or modified, and Live Nation may not hold ownership or control over them.",
      "states": "Sought as asset divestiture: an order requiring Live Nation to divest a sufficient number of Live Nation-owned large amphitheatres, plus cancellation of enough leases and exclusive booking arrangements to end national and local amphitheatre monopolies.",
      "difference": "The judgment releases a fixed list of venues from Live Nation control; the states' proposal would change who owns amphitheatres, and the number is left to the court.",
      "note": "c,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "ticketing-exclusivity",
      "label": "Primary ticketing exclusivity",
      "character": "Behavioural",
      "doj": "Ticketmaster must offer major concert venues a fully or partially non-exclusive contract, may not use pricing structures that reproduce exclusivity, and may not write a fully exclusive contract longer than four years.",
      "states": "Sought: prohibition on enforcing existing exclusivity against major concert venues, and forward-looking limits or prohibitions on long-term exclusive primary ticketing contracts.",
      "difference": "The judgment constrains the shape of future contracts; the states would also disable exclusivity already written into current ones.",
      "note": "a,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "inventory-allocation",
      "label": "Venue allocation of inventory to rivals",
      "character": "Behavioural",
      "doj": "Venues with at least four years remaining on a contract must be offered, annually, the option to sell up to 20% of fee-bearing primary inventory through other eligible providers, subject to a pro rata economic adjustment. Automatic renewal and extension terms are waived, and every major concert venue may use another provider's marketplace for one event a year.",
      "states": "Addressed indirectly, through the requested prohibition on enforcing exclusivity, which the states describe as giving other primary ticketers an opportunity to compete for some or all of a venue's ticketing.",
      "difference": "One sets a capped, priced carve-out inside existing deals; the other would remove the contractual barrier rather than meter it.",
      "note": "a,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "interoperability",
      "label": "Technical interoperability and API access",
      "character": "Behavioural",
      "doj": "The judgment defines the Ticketmaster back-end functions that must support third-party providers, including credentialing, inventory retrieval APIs and feeds, sale validation, barcode and token generation, entry-scan validation and reporting.",
      "states": "Not stated as a standalone remedy category; the states list interoperability and open or API-based ticketing as subjects of remedies discovery.",
      "difference": "The judgment specifies the technical surface now; the states are still developing the factual record before proposing terms.",
      "note": "a,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "conditioning-retaliation",
      "label": "Conditioning content on ticketing choice, and retaliation",
      "character": "Behavioural",
      "doj": "Prohibited. The judgment bars conditioning, retaliation and content steering against venues over their ticketing choice, and provides an independent monitor.",
      "states": "Sought, for a specified period, together with a new independent monitor holding broad and real-time access to records, communications and negotiations.",
      "difference": "Both prohibit the conduct; the proposals differ in the investigatory powers attached to the monitor.",
      "note": "a,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "amphitheatre-tying",
      "label": "Tying amphitheatre access to promotion services",
      "character": "Behavioural",
      "doj": "Addressed through the venue provisions of Section V rather than as a general tying prohibition across Live Nation's owned amphitheatres.",
      "states": "Sought: limits or prohibitions on conditioning artist access to Live Nation-controlled venues on use of Live Nation promotion, with owned amphitheatres made available to rival promoters on the same general terms, and possible competitive bidding for promotion on some tour stops.",
      "difference": "This is the conduct the jury found unlawful, and only the states' proposal addresses it as a market-wide obligation.",
      "note": "d,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "monetary",
      "label": "Monetary relief",
      "character": "Monetary",
      "doj": "The judgment provides for payments to settling states, including a fund for state antitrust enforcement costs, rather than damages determined at trial.",
      "states": "Sought: damages for ticket-fee overcharges to residents of plaintiff states, civil penalties, disgorgement of ill-gotten profits and restitution.",
      "difference": "One is a negotiated payment; the other is contested relief whose amount would be determined in the remedies phase.",
      "note": "a,b"
    },
    {
      "id": "term",
      "label": "Duration",
      "character": "Mixed",
      "doj": "Eight years from entry, with the monitor serving until expiry, and certain sections deemed expired on a sale of the Ticketmaster business.",
      "states": "Not fixed. Individual behavioural limits are described as running for a specified time period, to be set by the court.",
      "difference": "A settlement fixes its own horizon in advance; a litigated remedy is scoped by the court after the remedies proceeding.",
      "note": "a,b"
    }
  ],
  "remedyNotes": {
    "a": "DOJ Proposed Final Judgment, filed 12 June 2026.",
    "b": "Plaintiff States' Initial Proposed Remedies, ECF No. 1497-1, filed 21 May 2026.",
    "c": "DOJ Proposed Final Judgment, Section V and Table 1 (thirteen listed divestiture venues).",
    "d": "New York Attorney General release, 15 April 2026 (jury findings)."
  },
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "doc-competitive-impact-statement",
      "date": "2026-06-29",
      "displayDate": "29 June 2026",
      "title": "Competitive Impact Statement",
      "issuer": "United States",
      "description": "The statutory statement of the practices alleged and how the proposed judgment is said to address them.",
      "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1450496/dl",
      "track": "doj",
      "documentType": "Competitive impact statement"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-doj-case-page",
      "date": "2026-06-29",
      "displayDate": "Continuously updated",
      "title": "DOJ Antitrust Division case page",
      "issuer": "U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division",
      "description": "The docket-linked index of filings in the 2024 action.",
      "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-live-nation-entertainment-inc-and-ticketmaster-llc",
      "track": "shared",
      "documentType": "Case page"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-proposed-final-judgment",
      "date": "2026-06-12",
      "displayDate": "12 June 2026",
      "title": "Proposed Final Judgment",
      "issuer": "United States",
      "description": "The settlement's substantive terms: non-exclusivity options, contract-term caps, anti-conditioning and anti-retaliation provisions, a monitor, thirteen divestiture venues and an eight-year term.",
      "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1446036/dl",
      "track": "doj",
      "documentType": "Proposed final judgment"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-stipulation",
      "date": "2026-06-12",
      "displayDate": "12 June 2026",
      "title": "Stipulation and Order",
      "issuer": "United States and defendants",
      "description": "Governs the parties' conduct pending entry of the proposed judgment.",
      "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1446031/dl",
      "track": "doj",
      "documentType": "Stipulation"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-appa-explanation",
      "date": "2026-06-12",
      "displayDate": "12 June 2026",
      "title": "United States' Explanation of Procedures Under the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act",
      "issuer": "United States",
      "description": "Sets out the Tunney Act comment and review procedure.",
      "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1446026/dl",
      "track": "doj",
      "documentType": "Procedural filing"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-ca-remedies-release",
      "date": "2026-05-21",
      "displayDate": "21 May 2026",
      "title": "Attorney General Bonta Asks Court to Break Up Live Nation/Ticketmaster",
      "issuer": "California Attorney General",
      "description": "Official account of the structural remedies the coalition is seeking.",
      "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-asks-court-break-live-nationticketmaster",
      "track": "states",
      "documentType": "Official release"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-states-remedies",
      "date": "2026-05-21",
      "displayDate": "21 May 2026",
      "title": "Plaintiff States' Letter and Initial Proposed Remedies (ECF No. 1497)",
      "issuer": "Plaintiff states, filed S.D.N.Y.",
      "description": "The fourteen remedy categories the states intend to pursue, plus their initial discovery proposal.",
      "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Live%20Nation%20SDNY%20ECF%20No%201497%20COMPLETE.pdf",
      "track": "states",
      "documentType": "Remedies proposal"
    },
    {
      "id": "doc-ny-verdict-release",
      "date": "2026-04-15",
      "displayDate": "15 April 2026",
      "title": "Attorney General James and Coalition of States Win Trial Against Live Nation and Ticketmaster",
      "issuer": "New York Attorney General",
      "description": "Official account of the jury's findings on liability and overcharge.",
      "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-and-coalition-states-win-trial-against-live-nation-and",
      "track": "states",
      "documentType": "Official release"
    },
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