{"id":400355,"date":"2026-07-16T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400355\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:21:13","slug":"paramount-gets-new-judge-in-state-ags-antitrust-challenge-to-wbd-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400355\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Gets New Judge In State AGs Antitrust Challenge To WBD Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe State of California et al v. Paramount<\/a> Skydance Corporation et al has been reassigned to Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, and it appears that an initial hearing to consider a temporary restraining order on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger is still set for this Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tJudge P. Casey Pitts was initially assigned the case<\/a>, which was filed Monday in federal court in the Northern District of California by a dozen state attorneys general, led by California AG Rob Bonta. Paramount filed a motion earlier Wednesday seeking to have the judge\u00a0recused from the case<\/a>. The company\u2019s attorneys argued that Pitts has an \u201cappearance of bias\u201d because of his prior legal work for the Writers Guild of America. The WGA filed a separate suit<\/a> Tuesday to block the merger.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPitts had been randomly assigned to the case Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s legal team had requested the AG\u2019s case be reassigned to Judge Mart\u00ednez-Olgu\u00edn in Oakland County, who is overseeing\u00a0a related lawsuit that was brought by a group of consumers\u00a0<\/a>in April. There already has been some expectation that the case would be reassigned to her, even before Paramount\u2019s latest motion, given previous filings that the litigation is related.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier today, a Paramount shareholder filed a suit<\/a> in Delaware Chancery Court against the Ellisons and the board on behalf of the company.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese are critical days for proposed $110 billion deal, which Paramount has been hoping to close in the third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State of California et al v. Paramount Skydance Corporation et al has been reassigned to Judge Araceli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,17353,6336,121957,51319],"class_list":["post-400355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-electionline","tag-paramount","tag-paramount-wbd","tag-wbd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}