Companies thought they could get away with anything while Donald Trump was in office. But today they have a new problem: state attorneys general, and juries full of ordinary Americans.
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A Hole in the ‘Open-and-Shut’ Case Against Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin?
A new court filing suggests Tyler Robinson was in police custody hours before he ‘confessed’ to Discord buddies and ‘surrendered’ to a cop friend. Is he a patsy after all?
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Bumping Bondi
There are several other Trump cabinet members even more deserving of dismissal. Who’s next?
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Organized Money: California Attorney General Rob Bonta Is Not Done With Ticketmaster
The system is not completely broken, and it shows when states pick up the shattered pieces of our federal system.
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Democratic States Seek to Block Massive TV Station Merger
The team-up of Nexstar and Tegna would cover 80 percent of U.S. households. It’s the first of several cases where states are at odds with pay-to-play federal antitrust enforcement.
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States Substitute for Corrupt Feds on Antitrust
On Live Nation, Paramount–Warner Bros., and more, state attorneys general are becoming the chief antitrust enforcer. Do they have the capacity to keep going?
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Organized Money: The Live Nation Case
Why your event tickets are sky-high is even more infuriating than you can imagine.
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Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court
The deal contains a fairly useless set of conditions. More than two dozen states vow to continue fighting.
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Organized Money: The Paramount Takeover
The Ellisons moved closer to capturing Warner Bros., and control of a massive news, sports, and entertainment content stream.
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What You Won’t See at the Live Nation–Ticketmaster Trial
A Biden-appointed judge substantially narrowed the government’s bid to break up the music monopoly, and suppressed a few topics we’d really like to see play out on the stand.