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Ryuu96 on 12 June 2023
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Everyone knows FTC will lose in federal court, it's why they didn't do it in the first place, their planned court case isn't until August and now suddenly as things aren't going so well for the CMA and Microsoft may close over the UK. The FTC is finally actually suing to block the deal. Probably to give the CMA more time to finish the deal off and to provide CMA more support against CAT in blocking the deal.

An injunction is what the FTC has been avoiding and what Microsoft has wanted all along, something has spooked the FTC and forced their hand.

14 days for a TRO and the actual case will be a really short case of MS vs FTC. FTC has to prove "immediate harm" in order to block it. Console immediate harm hasn't been accepted in any country and Cloud immediate harm doesn't exist either because Activision doesn't offer their games on most Cloud services and in fact, all the deals Microsoft has made do the opposite of immediate harm.

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