Rapture Music Festival has been doing every little thing in its energy to try to regain the weekend in March on Virginia Key that was given, rightfully, by the Miami City Council to Ultra Music Festival. Rapture started promoting tickets to its third annual pageant on Virginia Key earlier than the venue was allotted to Ultra for March 29-31, 2019.
In the time since, Rapture has issued a cease & desist in addition to filed an ficial lawsuit to try to get their dates again. During the entire ordeal, Rapture continued to promote tickets to the pageant, regardless of having no venue. On their Facebook, Rapture continued to assert, “The occasion will not be cancelled. We are planning on getting our location again, it’s all in federal Judge palms now.”
On February four, a decide dismissed Rapture’s lawsuit, citing Rapture’s incapacity to “plausibly allege any illegal conspiracy or anticompetitve association between Defendants.” The court docket warned that any additional frivolous fits introduced forth to the court docket, in the event that they had been dismissed too, could be met with “prejudice.”
Today, a Florida court docket has dismissed Rapture’s amended enchantment with prejudice.
The order reads, briefly:
On February 12, Rapture filed the amended criticism, and it comes no nearer to stating a declare than the primary did. Rapture’s amended criticism is little greater than an inventory explanation why Rapture thinks the Ultra music pageant is not any good. But the authorized claims hooked up to that checklist are incidental; like a rickety soapbox, they serve no goal aside from to hoist Rapture’s checklist grievances into court docket and, from there, into the general public’s view.
By dismissing the claims with prejudice, the court docket successfully prevents Rapture from bringing one other federal swimsuit in opposition to Ultra, ordering, ” It is additional ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the case is CLOSED for administrative functions. All hearings are CANCELLED; all motions DENIED AS MOOT.” Rapture nonetheless has the choice bringing the brand new state claims once more.
An ficial assertion from Ultra Music Festival reads, “We are happy that the Court has once more declined to entertain, for the ultimate time, the baseless authorized claims in opposition to Ultra.”
Ultra Music Festival 2019 will happen on Virginia Key on March 29, 30 and 31.
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