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TOP NEWS
AGs, WGA Want April Merger Trial, Paramount Wants Nov.
By Bryan Koenig
Paramount Skydance Corp. battled over trial timing Friday as the Writers Guild of America and state attorneys general challenge its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., in a joint California federal court brief where the plaintiffs sought April 2027 proceedings and the companies proposed a November kickoff.
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Trump, Copyright Chief Spar Over Justices' Removal Rulings
By Ivan Moreno
The Trump administration and U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter have each told a D.C. federal judge that U.S. Supreme Court rulings in June regarding presidential removal power bolster their side in the fight over her firing, with Perlmutter saying they leave intact her statutory challenge and the government saying they confirm President Donald Trump's authority to oust her.
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RISING STAR
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Connor Sullivan
By Benjamin Morse
Connor Sullivan of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped secure a first-of-its-kind defamation victory for OpenAI and persuaded a New York judge to dismiss Sean "Diddy" Combs' $100 million suit against NBCUniversal, earning him a spot among the media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION
COMPETITION
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
By Matthew Perlman
A group of state enforcers challenged Paramount's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, as a separate group of states and DirecTV accused Nexstar of violating an order preventing it from integrating with Tegna and the Federal Trade Commission faced a bench trial seeking to block a constructive adhesive deal.
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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
By Christopher Cole
The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 170 times in July as they sought to sway the FCC on satellite licensing rules, an auction of C-band airwaves, rural healthcare aid, broadcast media ownership limits and more.
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EXPERT ANALYSIS
FTC Focus: Enforcing Vertically Integrated Operating Systems
As digital platforms increasingly pair operating systems with commerce, advertising, content and data, antitrust scrutiny will turn on whether those integrations create private bottlenecks that foreclose rivals through access, ranking, interoperability or defaults, pushing courts and enforcement agencies to adapt traditional utility and merger frameworks more aggressively, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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