California AG Open to Structural Remedies in Paramount–WBD Merger Suit

California AG Rob Bonta told a Politico conference in Sacramento on 11 August 2026 he would consider structural remedies — keeping certain corporate entities separate in wide-release films, blockbusters and cable programming — to settle the lawsuit blocking the $111-billion Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger. He dismissed behavioural remedies as "an old stale promise." A March trial is set.