Judge declines Paramount request to expedite Warner Bros. lawsuit

A judge on the Delaware Court of Chancery has denied a motion filed by Paramount Skydance to expedite its lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery as the latter Hollywood studio remains up for sale.

In a ruling issued Thursday morning, Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn determined Paramount has not suffered any “cognizable, irreparable harm” from what the entertainment company alleges is a lack of information provided by Warner Bros. As a result, the judge declined to speed up the trial process.

“Paramount itself is not making any decision based” on Warner Bros.’s allegedly deficient disclosures, Zurn said. “Paramount itself was not misled.”

She added that Paramount can obtain the wanted information outside of an expedited legal proceeding and that it “must decide whether and how to improve