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What We’ve Learned So Far from the AT&T-Time Warner Antitrust Trial

By  |  April 10, 2018

What We’ve Learned So Far from the AT&T-Time Warner Antitrust Trial

By Ted Johnson

The AT&T-Time Warner antitrust trial, which entered its fourth week on Monday, so far has been a proceeding that has unfolded drip by drip, as the government has sought to prove its case with evidence of e-mails, PowerPoint presentations and other documents and the the defense has tried to dismiss their relevance.

There have been few bombshell revelations, with the caveat that a chunk of the trial has been conducted outside of public view.

For much of the afternoon on Monday, for instance, attorneys for the Justice Department and the two companies gathered in a closed courtroom session with U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, apparently to go over some confidential information that will have an impact on the witness list to come.

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