(Hype Bot) — A California district court dismissed a class-action ticket purchaser claim from arbitration because the fine print accompanying each ticket purchase was “poorly drafted,” “ridiculous” and “nonsense,” according to a judge in the case. ”.
Another judge said some of the language in the arbitration agreement was “circular and problematic,” while a third called some of the rules “crazy.”
Last year, U.S. District Judge George H. Wu found that Live Nation’s switch from an established judicial arbitration and mediation service to the controversial upstart arbitrator New Era Advanced Dispute Resolution (ADR) without informing users was “extremely procedural. unreasonable”. Law 360, and New Era’s arbitration agreement “show elements of substantial unreasonableness.”
Lawyers for Live Nation returned to court this week, arguing that ticket buyers’ claims should still be handled through arbitration rather than in court.
The latest judicial rebuke of Live Nation comes with an antitrust lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to break up the live music giant and its Ticketmaster division, which recently suffered a massive data breach.
Bruce Horton is the founder and editor of Hypebot, a senior consultant at Bandsintown, president of Skyline Artists Agency, and a professor at Berklee College of Music.
