Paramount-WBD Merger: Oregon AG Withdraws Records Request, Motion to Delay

Oregon attorney general Dan Rayfield has withdrawn the state's records request and motion to delay the closing of the $110 billion Paramount Warner Bros. merger, according to a filing with the Multnomah County Court on Friday. The state has been investigating the merger since it was first announced in February and claimed that Paramount had not complied with a records request that was sent to the company in June. That request asked for documents about the company's lobbying of federal officials in support of the deal, its role in a U.S. Department of Justice statement approving the merger . . .