• Master167@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    For consumers. It the justification given to allow mergers that feel like monopolies to occur. The companies put up the argument that the combined companies will provide better goods or services to consumers then as competitors and the judges sign off on it.

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      2 days ago

      The juwhat? Is that when we give them their own courts? I thought that was the text formatting thing but I think that’s just on screen and a judge wouldn’t be able to sign off if they don’t have judges yet.

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        16 hours ago

        It’s not their own courts. But federal and state attorneys will sue the merger deal on antitrust grounds. So the judges are either federal or state appellate judges that hear the arguments. The trend in the past 40ish years to allow the merger because of the consumer good arguments.