Ticket resale companies sue DC over proposed law

Tonight, a new lawsuit is challenging D.C.'s efforts to crack down on those skyrocketing concert tickets. Now, some of the country's biggest ticket resellers asking a judge to block a new law, saying that this goes too far. Fox 5's Homa Bash joins us now to break it all down when it comes to this legal fight. Homa? Yeah, guys, here's the thing. D.C. lawmakers say they want to make concerts and shows more affordable for all of us. But ticket resellers, well, they're arguing this new law could actually make things worse. I'm not surprised they're fighting back, but they're wrong. They just want to continue getting money and taking more money out of your pockets rather than saving people money who just want to go see a live show or their favorite artist. That's Councilmember Charles Allen, who introduced the D.C. Resale Act. It passed council unanimously and is set to become law on January 1st. Here's what happened starting then. If you buy a ticket for a concert, comedy, or show for $100, Someone reselling it couldn't charge more than 10% of the original price, so $110 plus some limited fees. Now, four major ticket resale sites, SeatGeek, VividSeats, GameTime, and TickPick are all suing the district to stop it from going into effect. Brian Berry with the Ticket Policy Forum says the resale act violates the law, it doesn't benefit consumers, and is only good for one company many of us are very familiar with. Ticketmaster backed this law. Ticketmaster pushed this law. And Ticketmaster got itself exempted from this law. That's not a law that's going to serve D.C. well. So I believe the D.C. City Council can do better. They'll have an opportunity in their next session to do so. We can scrap this one, tell Ticketmaster to take a hike and come back and pass a better law that only focuses on protecting consumers. Councilmember Allen telling me the legislation was thoroughly vetted by D.C.'s attorney general. They feel they're on strong legal grounds here. So what is next? Well, the ticket companies are asking a federal judge to pause the law before it goes into effect on January 1. So for now, that court battle is really just getting started. Kenneth.