Free speech and media advocacy groups urged a judge to block a California settlement with Paramount Skydance that would let the company finalize its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
A coalition of free speech and media advocacy groups told the judge in a filing yesterday that the deal will give residents of the states that sued Paramount “virtually nothing.”
The League of United Latin American Citizens raised similar concerns in its own court filing.
Warner Bros. Projected it would release 19 films while Paramount forecast 15 or more, the filing said.
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Free speech and media advocacy groups urged a judge to block a California settlement with Paramount Skydance that would let the company finalize its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
Twelve states led by California sued to block the deal in July and were able to delay it when US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled that Paramount combining with Warner Bros. Would likely reduce competition and violate antitrust laws. Despite that initial victory, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Paramount earlier this week and the other states involved in the lawsuit signed on to the deal.
A coalition of free speech and media advocacy groups told the judge in a filing yesterday that the deal will give residents of the states that sued Paramount “virtually nothing.” The filing was submitted by the Committee for the First Amendment, Free Press, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Future Film Coalition, and International Documentary Association.
The League of United Latin American Citizens raised similar concerns in its own court filing.
At a hearing yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California, Martínez-Olguín told lawyers that “the court isn’t a rubber stamp of your agreement… I have some questions,” Variety reported.
Martínez-Olguín asked the parties to submit replies to a letter sent by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who said the companies should be needed to explain “how each provision remedies each harm alleged in the complaint.”
Warner Bros. Projected it would release 19 films while Paramount forecast 15 or more, the filing said.
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