The government’s historic loss on Tuesday in its challenge to the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, Inc., attracted a media blitz that was massive even as big antitrust cases go. Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, fielded many questions about the case and its consequences.
He spoke with any number of outlets before the decision to handicap the likely results and forecast their effects, including Politico, Yahoo Finance, and Bloomberg. In its immediate aftermath, he spoke with several more, to untangle the court’s 172-page opinion and forecast its immediate effects, including Bloomberg, CNNMoney, and the Wall Street Journal.