States make last-ditch effort to stop the Paramount ‘media behemoth’

A twelve authorities attorneys wide are trying to artifact the $110 cardinal merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery they pass would rise movie prices and crush cablegram TV distributors.

The states - California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington - filed suit connected Monday, arguing the operation would illegally harm contention and make a "media behemoth." Last month, the Justice Department declined to block the merger successful a determination that The Wall Street Journal reported amazed vocation unit who were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit. In an exit intervi …

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