Earlier this year, on the eve of jury selection for a trial over the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy, when a crowd crush during a Travis Scott concert resulted in 10 deaths, the last of the victims’ families finally settled. But Live Nation, the event promoter, still faces outstanding claims from others who were injured in the melee, and those are proving more difficult to sweep away. Instead, they’ve landed Live Nation before the Texas Supreme Court, where the company is desperately seeking to stop a deposition of its C.E.O., Michael Rapino.

It’s the latest legal trouble for the country’s biggest concert promoter, which, along with Ticketmaster, is already facing a Justice Department suit for inflated concert prices. In the Astroworld case, the courts have so far been unsympathetic to Live Nation’s pleas, with both the trial judge and an appellate court clearing the way for Rapino’s testimony. Live Nation argues that its C.E.O. lacks any insight that would warrant his deposition about the disaster, framing the demand for his testimony as an unwarranted intrusion into corporate affairs—exactly the sort of overreach the ostensibly business-friendly Texas court should be guarding against.