Indiana joins 38 other states in lawsuit against LiveNation/Ticketmaster

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Monday, the United States Justice Department announced that ten additional states, including Indiana, have joined a civil antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation/Ticketmaster for operating a monopoly.

"Today, the Attorneys General of Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, 29 other states and the District of Columbia against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolization and other unlawful conduct in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act," the Justice Department said.

Only 11 states -- Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Montana, and North Dakota -- are not a part of the lawsuit.

"The department, and its now-expanded group of 40 co-plaintiffs, filed an amended complaint in the Southern District of New York," the Justice Department said. "The amended complaint also alleges additional details about Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s anticompetitive course of conduct in markets across the live entertainment industry."