Paramount Pitches Judge On November Start Of WBD Merger Antitrust Trial, While State AGs & WGA Propose April

Paramount and the state attorneys general did not reach an agreement on a proposed Warner Bros. Discovery merger trial date, with the company pitching a November start, and the government plaintiffs asking the judge for April. Their proposals came in a joint filing on Friday. “The parties have discussed the trial sched

Paramount Skydance asked a judge on Friday to schedule its upcoming antitrust trial in November, while a coalition of states and the Writers Guild of America asked for a date in April 2027. The scheduling matters a lot to Paramount, which will begin paying Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million a day on Sept. 30 until…

Campaigners brought the legal action to try and stop the trial going ahead.