How Teams Can Mitigate Risk of Ticket Broker Suits

By Andrew Louis and Daniel Paluch   Ticket brokers — many a fan’s go-to for season passes or hard-to-get tickets for playoff games — have for decades played an integral role in the ticket supply chain. In some cases they have even enjoyed close, informal, and long-lasting relationships with teams across the country. But more recently they have become a source of litigation risk for teams that revoked the brokers’ access to season passes. As described below, some of this risk can be