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Microsoft-Activision deal faces March 23 preliminary injunction hearing in US gamers’ lawsuit

By Michael Acton ( January 19, 2023, 20:43 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft’s planned $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard will be probed by a California federal judge at a March 23 hearing, as she mulls whether to issue a temporary block on the deal – although that hearing date could slip if Microsoft provides further assurances to the plaintiffs that the deal won’t close while their case is still pending.* In a San Francisco courtroom today, US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she will deny Microsoft’s motion to stay the private litigation in California from a proposed class of video game buyers who say the deal violates Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Microsoft’s planned $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard will be probed by a California federal judge at a March 23 hearing, as she mulls whether to issue a temporary block on the deal – although that hearing date could slip if Microsoft provides further assurances to the plaintiffs that the deal won’t close while their case is still pending.*...

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