In the latest turn in Las Vegas’ long-running newspaper feud, a federal appeals panel has told a Nevada judge to undo an order that forced the Las Vegas Review-Journal to keep printing the Las Vegas Sun. The move hands the Review-Journal another win in the fight over the papers’ joint operating deal and temporarily pulls the safety net from the Sun’s print edition while the broader antitrust battle grinds on. The ruling does not finally decide who controls printing in the market, but it sharply limits what the district court can do for now.
The three-judge panel, Judges Daniel P. Collins, Lawrence VanDyke and Salvador Mendoza Jr., instructed U.S. District Judge Anne R. Traum to vacate her restraining order, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. That directive builds on the panel’s earlier ruling that the 2005 joint-operating agreement is unlawful because it was never approved in writing by the U.S. attorney general, a requirement spelled out in the court’s published opinion. For readers who want to wade into the legal details, the Ninth Circuit’s opinion is available at Justia.
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