Fortune March 20, 2018

AT&T and Time Warner's Antitrust Trial Starts With Clashes Over 'Startling' Employee Admissions

The U.S. antitrust trial against AT&T Inc.’s proposed takeover of Time Warner Inc. opened with clashes over whether the Justice Department should be allowed to introduce internal company documents that it claims contain “startling” admissions.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon is weighing arguments from the department’s antitrust division and AT&T about the standards for allowing the documents as evidence in the trial, which began Monday in federal court in Washington.

The dispute could be key to the government’s argument that the Time Warner takeover should be blocked on antitrust

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