A federal judge on Tuesday scheduled a trial to determine whether Paramount’s $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery violates antitrust law for March, a timeline that could further delay one of the biggest media deals in history.
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the trial would begin on March 2 and run for 12 days, with two breaks in early and mid-March.
The timeline is a win for a coalition of 12 states that sued to block Paramount’s acquisition and last week had asked Judge Martínez-Olguín for an April start date. Paramount asked that the trial begin in November and called the states’ request a “stonewalling tactic.”
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