The deal was set to go to trial before an FTC administrative law judge on Aug. 2.
One was in district court, whichThe Federal Trade Commission, headed by Lina Kahn, has suffered setbacks in court in its pursuit to block the deal.The second was before an FTC administrative law judge, where the deal was set to go to trial on Aug. 2. It was this attack that the agency put on hold on Thursday, in an order made by FTC Secretary April Tabor.
Microsoft and Activision argued in a motion posted to the FTC’s website on Wednesday that withdrawing the agency’s case was both mandatory and in the public interest.Anadolu Agency via Getty Images “The district court had a full opportunity to consider the FTC’s claims and found that the Commission was unlikely to succeed on the merits of those claims for multiple, independently sufficient reasons,” the companies said in their motion.
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