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March 21, 2023

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Here’s a quick look at today’s top legal news.

Judge sets October trial in U.S. challenge to JetBlue’s Spirit deal

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U.S. District Judge William Young, a veteran jurist known for setting quick schedules, set an Oct. 16 trial date in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking to halt JetBlue’s planned $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines. Young scheduled the nonjury, four-week trial during the first hearing to be held in the blockbuster case, which the department filed two weeks ago. Read more about the case.

Experts have said that JetBlue faces an uphill battle in the litigation and that the blockbuster case may cast a chill over future airline deals.

Coming up this afternoon:

SVB Financial Group accuses FDIC of cutting it off from cash

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At SCOTUS

U.S. Supreme Court divided over Coinbase arbitration dispute

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U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared divided over a bid by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to halt customer lawsuits, including by a user who sued after a scammer stole money from his account, as it pursues an effort to move the disputes out of courts and into private arbitration. Read more about oral arguments.

Coming up tomorrow at SCOTUS: A free speech fight over a dog toy

Catch up on the latest news from the current term here.

Ticketmaster customers attack ‘Kafkaesque’ mass arbitration rules

Remember the provocative U.S. Chamber report last month on mass arbitration, which called for arbitration providers to allow bellwether proceedings to curb purported abuses by plaintiffs lawyers using the leverage of fat arbitration fees? An arbitration startup called New Era ADR does just that, offering companies a process to arbitrate the merits of bellwether consumer claims. But a new brief by customers of Ticketmaster and Live Nation contends that New Era’s rules are so biased in favor of defendants that they are unconscionable. Alison Frankel explains why Ticketmaster consumers say they shouldn’t be forced into an arbitration process that, among other alleged problems, allows for only 10-page complaints and five-page briefs.

Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu