Rob Bonta calls Paramount’s threat to ditch California ‘blackmail’ to force settlement talks

California Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Paramount Skydance of trying to “blackmail” his office on Tuesday by threatening to leave the state unless he agrees to hold settlement talks in the antitrust case against the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly plans to take

Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California who is leading a 12-state coalition’s lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, responded to David Ellison’s threat to pull Paramount out of the state unless Bonta agrees to settlement talks. “In a span of weeks, Paramount agreed to halt the m

Paramount CEO David Ellison told a group of the company’s top executives that he will start the process of exiting California on Oct. 1 if State Attorney General Rob Bonta will not negotiate to settle an antitrust suit around the merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ellison made the remarks at a meeting last week. Detai

Michael Gates and the California GOP allege Rob Bonta's lawsuit blocking Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery may be a favor to Netflix.

California voter ID backers lost a court fight Thursday to block Attorney General Rob Bonta’s controversial rewrite of their initiative’s ballot language, fueling fresh accusations that state officials are trying to “rig” the vote.