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# DOJ official downplays state AGs’ Paramount-WBD settlement terms
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/doj-official-downplays-state-ags-paramount-wbd-settlement-terms/
- Published: 2026-09-23T23:55:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T00:06:31.000Z
- Description: Deadline’s Ted Johnson reports that associate attorney general Stanley Woodward minimized the concessions state AGs won in their settlement blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger, saying the only antitrust provisions require Paramount honor commitments it had already made.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Streaming, Ted Johnson, Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery and becomes Skydance

**Why it matters.** The federal-state split gives Paramount an argument to treat the consent decree’s behavioral conditions as optional rather than binding once the merger closes.

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