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Paramount Skydance settles states' suit, clearing $81B Warner Bros. Discovery merger

Lina Khan warns settlement would let an illegal merger proceed

4 Sep 20 3:04 PM · 3d ago · 3 articles · 4 posts · 4 sources · development 4 of 7

Former FTC chair Lina Khan publicly criticizes the prospect of a settlement based on behavioral remedies, calling the underlying merger facially illegal; separately, a report says not all state AGs back the emerging deal.

Lina Khan warns settlement would let an illegal merger proceed
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“The Paramount/Warner Brothers merger seems facially illegal, and the state AG lawsuit challenging it is very strong. It's troubling to hear that the states may now settle for behavioral remedies, allowing the deal to go through subject to various promises from the firms.”

Lina Khan

David Ellison Paramount Skydance CEORob BontaRob Bonta California Attorney GeneralLina Khan Former FTC chair, public criticBlock the Merger coalition Advocacy group including Jane Fonda and Mark RuffaloWarner Bros. Discovery Merger target

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch

  1. 2 outlets Paramount nears merger settlement, but some key state AGs are not on board yet

    first by CNN, 3d ago · also Seeking Alpha

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  2. 1 outlet Paramount reportedly in ‘advanced settlement talks’ to resolve antitrust lawsuit over WBD acquisition

    first by Awful Announcing, 3d ago

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