North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that a federal judge has granted an emergency motion freezing what he described as the largest television merger in U.S. history, setting up a major legal battle over media consolidation and antitrust law. “Merger frozen,” Jackson said in a social media video after describing the court decision as…
A federal judge indicated on Wednesday that he is likely to overturn the $4.7 billion damages award recently granted by a jury to NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers. The verdict was returned last month in a case alleging that the National Football League (NFL) conspired with DirecTV to artificially inflate the price of the Sunday Ticket…