Trump’s DOJ Lets Ticketmaster off the Hook for No Reason
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
OA1243 - The lawsuit that was supposed to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s obvious monopoly over live music throughout the U.S. has just ended in a settlement so surprising that even DOJ’s lead counsel didn’t know it was happening. Is this deal as bad as it looks? What does it mean for the future of live entertainment, and what will happen if the dozens of states which joined the feds in this case don’t sign off on it?
Also: An insurance company sues ChatGPT for telling someone to fire their lawyer, the first (known) instance of a DOJ lawyer writing a brief with AI, and Kristi Noem’s Marvel-ous new job.
Finally in today’s footnote--did thousands of people really just bet on the death of Ayatollah Ali Khameni? We take a closer look at the legal basis for “prediction markets” like Kalshi and Polymarket.
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Statement of Objection to Ticketmaster Live Settlement, Matt Cameron (Nov. 30, 2011)(Matt’s actual filing into the 2011 Ticketmaster litigation demanding a handle of Jack Daniel’s and “a personalized letter drafted and personally signed by Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard which contains at least two (2) credibly apologetic statements, to be reviewed prior to delivery for quality of spelling, grammar, and penitence by an objective arbiter designated by the Court” for each class member)
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Complaint in United States et al. v. Live Nation (2024)
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Term Sheet for the Resolution of United States et al. v. Live Nation (2024)
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“Trump convenes ‘Shield of Americas’ summit with 12 Latin American leaders,” The Guardian, (3/7/2026)
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Show cause order in Fivehouse v. US Department of Defense (2025)
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Complaint in Nippon Life Insurance Company of America v. OpenAI Foundation (2026)
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Complaint in Risch v. KalshiEX LLC (2026)
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| 0:00.0 | Chat GPT is not an attorney. |
| 0:05.0 | Although it was able to pass the uniform bar examination with a combined score of 297. |
| 0:10.0 | Imagine like finding out as lead counsel, you know, the next day that we actually have a settlement, right? |
| 0:23.6 | Absolutely ridiculous. |
| 0:25.1 | Judge didn't like it either. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:35.9 | This is episode 1243. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Thomas Thad over's real-life immigration attorney. |
| 0:39.2 | Matt Cameron. How are you doing, Matt? I'm all right. Just have another Wednesday. Just filed another lawsuit against Christy Knoem. Well, I still can. Got a few more days here, everybody. 25 more days of Crispy Noam. Oh, I didn't even realize that. I thought she was just gone. So there's like a time lag on it? |
| 0:54.2 | End of the month. |
| 0:55.3 | Wow. |
| 0:55.7 | So she's got to try to get her jets worth. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. Oh, I didn't even realize that. I thought she was just gone. So there's like a time lag on it. |
| 1:11.6 | End of the month. Wow. So she's got to try to get her jets worth. Yeah. That's right. Get perks. A lot of different words I could have used there. You know, you'd think that would be the kind of job where you have to carry your box of stuff out the day you're fired. But I guess you get to hang around a few more days. Yeah, I for sure thought that. |
| 1:14.1 | I never would have dreamed that she's still in there. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, what are you doing? day you're fired, but I guess you get to hang around a few more days. Yeah, I for sure thought that. |
| 1:25.1 | I never would have dreamed that she's still in there. Well, what are you suing her for? Well, it felt pretty good. It was a habeas petition. I got to write, I mean, she's one of the defendants. Obviously, I get to sue Pam Bondi and, of course, our local jailer as part of the habeas petition. but I got to write that Christine Nowm is currently |
| 1:27.0 | the DHS Secretary, so |
| 1:29.1 | that's true, at least as of now. |
| 1:31.4 | The way these habeas petitions have been going, this will be settled, you know, weeks before she's out. So you don't get to sue her for the plane or anything. It's got to just be like some other... No, or any of the... Various animals she's killed, yeah. |
| 1:48.1 | No. Darn. Not just a plain old habeas petition like we do pretty much every week now oh that's the thing that gives the president the right to that's right |
| 1:52.6 | to detain people you were listening yeah yeah i learned something you know it's good to actually |
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