American consumers received good news recently when news broke that the Justice Department is preparing to sue Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster’s parent company, as soon as this month.

Live Nation has a well-documented history of leveraging its market dominance to bully other industry actors, so this is a welcomed development. Now is the time for the Justice Department to take the logical next step and file its long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against the company.

Live Nation’s abuse of venue operators goes back years. In 2019, the Justice Department took significant enforcement action by extending the company’s antitrust consent decree by five and a half years. The extension was in direct response to Live Nation repeatedly violating the previous decree by coercing venues into using Ticketmaster lest they miss out on profitable events.

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