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AT&T Merger Trial Opens With Fight Over Internal Documents
- U.S. says company records contain ‘startling’ admissions
- Judge weighs arguments about standards for using information
AT&T and Time Warner Battle the DOJ
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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.