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The attorney general of New Jersey has filed charges against three ticket resellers, saying that the companies were offering to sell tickets to coming Bruce Springsteen shows that had not yet gone on sale.

The attorney general, Anne Milgram, filed lawsuits on Wednesday in Essex County Superior Court against Select-A-Ticket, Orbitz Worldwide and TicketNetwork. The companies were selling tickets at several hundred dollars above face value to Mr. Springsteens concerts on Sept. 30, Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Those tickets are scheduled to go on sale on Monday.

In addition, Orbitz was charged with selling tickets to sections of Giants Stadium that do not exist. In February Ticketmaster agreed to change its sales policy when more than 2,000 fans of Mr. Springsteen complained to the New Jersey attorney generals office that when they attempted to buy tickets from Ticketmaster.com, they were redirected to Ticketsnow.com, a resale site owned by Ticketmaster.

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