{"id":61019,"date":"2017-11-21T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61019"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:18:22","slug":"att-us-prepare-to-battle-in-court-over-time-warner-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2017\/att-us-prepare-to-battle-in-court-over-time-warner-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T, US Prepare to Battle in Court Over Time Warner Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) A defiant Randall Stephenson told antitrust enforcers that AT&#038;T Inc. would see them in court after the Justice Department sued to block the company\u2019s $85.4 billion bid to buy Time Warner Inc.   The lawsuit \u201cstretches the very idea of antitrust law beyond the breaking point,\u201d Stephenson, AT&#038;T\u2019s chief executive officer, said at a briefing Monday. He left the door open for negotiations to find a way for the deal to pass federal muster &#8212; but reiterated that he wouldn\u2019t sell CNN to appease Washington, whether the deal was influenced by President Donald Trump or not. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-11-20\/at-t-is-said-to-face-u-s-antitrust-lawsuit-over-time-warner\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A defiant Randall Stephenson told antitrust enforcers that AT&#038;T Inc. would see them in court after the Justice Department sued to block the company\u2019s $85.4 billion bid to buy Time Warner Inc. The lawsuit \u201cstretches the very idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61020,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019\/revisions\/61020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}