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Subsidiary of time warner, offer what's called an arbitration order. they said if there are disputes, a cable company could come to us and say let's sit down with a third party mediator who will decide which offer is best and that's the offer we would have to go to. it would be a binding arbitration deal. some cable distributors are not a huge fan of this offer because they say it's blind. yesterday judge leon asked one of the cable distributors on the stand, he said, well, how would you feel if we restructured the arbitration deal? what if we made it more fair so they had more information abo...

Courtroom prove it. in fact, members of the public, members of the media, dozens of them have been standing in line for hours now to get into the trial that starts with opening arguments at 11:30 this morning. the question is, why the huge interest in this case? well, this case will have huge implications for the future of media mergers and really the future of business deals in general when it comes to this trump administration. secondly, this is the first time since the 1970s that the government has sued to block a vertical merger in court. so what exactly is a vertical merger? this is a ver...