Live Nation Rejected by Supreme Court in Consumer Antitrust Case

The US Supreme Court turned away an appeal by ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. in a consumer antitrust suit, dealing a blow to the company’s effort to manage its antitrust woes by channeling cases into arbitration.

The justices without comment left intact a federal appeals court decision that said Live Nation’s arbitration agreements with customers were “unconscionable” and couldn’t be enforced under California law. Live Nation was trying to funnel cases into group arbitration proceedings run by New Era ADR.