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: Legal Pad | LATicketmaster finds it hard to be a saint in New Jersey, moves for venue change
By Richard Binder
In recent months, 10 putative class-action suits have been filed in federal courts in six states over Ticketmaster's alleged practice of redirecting online shoppers for concert tickets to the Web site of a subsidiary, TicketsNow, that sells them at a big markup. Three are in the District of New Jersey, where the plaintiffs' lawyers are asking the Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation to transfer the other seven.
But Ticketmaster, which is based in California, have moved to dismiss the New Jersey cases as duplicative, or, in the alternate, to transfer them to the Central District of California in Los Angeles, where the earliest suits were filed.
Four other suit have been filed, in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota and North Carolina.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).
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