For everything, there is a season: The Tipline for 22 March 2023

Months are far too small a unit of time to measure antitrust litigation. The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts is giving the Department of Justice and JetBlue/Spirit two Gregorian calendar seasons to prepare for trial. Forget the start of spring, your summer vacation and the entire 162-game baseball regular season. It’s already time to pick out a Halloween costume between sips of pumpkin spice lattes. Also in Tipline, McDonald's says it shares no connection with FIFA and concertgoers suing Live Nation invoke Franz Kafka to describe the company’s arbitration policies.