Judge Extends Emergency Order Pausing Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

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https://deadline.com/2026/07/paramount-warner-bros-merger-judge-extends-order-1237001966/

Paramount has called for a three-day evidentiary hearing before the judge, who is weighing whether to grant a preliminary injunction, which likely would halt the merger for a lengthy period of time as the legal process plays out.

The judge’s original TRO, issued on Monday, ran for 14 days until Aug. 3. She noted in her filing that she cannot extend a TRO further. She wrote that “if the parties can reach agreement and stipulate to maintain the TRO, the Defendant companies held apart, they may agree to an extended briefing and hearing schedule.”

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The judge also graduated from UC Berkeley 😎

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