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U.S. Government To Appeal Judge's Approval Of AT&T-Time Warner Deal

A month after Judge Richard Leon backed the $85 billion deal, federal antitrust attorneys say they will seek to overturn it. AT&T has already begun to consolidate control of its new media holdings.
Federal lawyers contended that a combined AT&T and Time Warner would be too large and powerful.

Updated at 5:39 p.m. ET

The U.S. Justice Department filed notice Thursday that it would seek to overturn a judge's earlier ruling that enabled telecom giant AT&T to take over the media conglomerate Time Warner, which

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