A federal judge tossed out an antitrust challenge to the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger that was brought by a group of consumers.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote that the plaintiffs in the case had failed to establish standing, but she will allow them to file a revised complaint.
“Plaintiffs’ standing theory amounts to little more than the assertion that they are consumers who watch television and go to the movies, and therefore a merger between entertainment companies would injure them,” the judge wrote.
She also wrote that the plaintiffs alleged “only one concrete and particularized injury – a single,
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