The Paramount–WBD legal battle: What happens next?

A legal battle over Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, is underway.

A coalition of 12 state attorneys general has filed an antitrust lawsuit and laid out their arguments; Paramount executives have pushed back hard, calling the suit “wrong on both the facts and the law.”

Now the states are asking for a temporary restraining order — a TRO, for short — and a preliminary injunction to freeze Paramount in place.

Here are some — partial, tentative, caveated! — answers to all the pressing questions about the deal.

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