The
Department of Justice and the merging parties, AT&T and Time Warner, are proposing
different
dates for their upcoming trial that are far apart. AT&T and Time Warner
proposes that the trial begin on February 20, 2018, while DOJ is seeking to
delay the trial until May 7, 2018. The difference is important because the
merger agreement is scheduled to expire on April 22, 2018. The merger
was first announced in October of 2016, so DOJ has already had more than a year to review the merger and prepare for trial.
Free State Foundation President Randolph May and I provided an analysis of DOJ’s challenge to the merger in a recent
column in The Hill.
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