{
  "id": 9614490,
  "title": "Judge Questions Legal Points of Paramount’s Settlement With States at Hearing, Says a Ruling Will Come in ‘Due Course’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/judge-questions-legal-points-of-paramounts-settlement-with-states-at",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-24T18:57:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/judge-paramount-state-ags-settlement-hearing-1236874529/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The judge overseeing the antitrust case filed by 12 state attorneys general seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger questioned the parties about their settlement at a hearing Thursday. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín has not yet ruled on whether to approve the proposed settlement, and set the virtual hearing to cover “outstanding questions” […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}