Live Nation instructed to spend the week negotiating with US states in antitrust case

Following Michael Rapino’s short appearance in court this morning further details emerge about the specifics of the deal struck with the DOJ

News By IQ | 10 March 2026

Live Nation president and CEO Michael Rapino appeared briefly in a New York courtroom this morning (Tuesday) as the company continued the process of seeking to get holdout states to agree to the same deal that the Department of Justice approved yesterday.

Following yesterday’s news that the DOJ and Live Nation had come to a proposed settlement, numerous states applied to the court for a mistrial to give them time to marshal their case in the absence of the…

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