The court entered the consent decree on 30 September 2026 and the docket of California v. Paramount Skydance shows the case terminated on 1 October 2026, per the CourtListener court register; The Independent confirms the judge approved the settlement with the 12 states.
Hunch. The two cases that closed this fast were both settlements with a federal agency that could sign alone, while here twelve attorneys general have to sign and the court has given them only two days in the middle of October to do it.
The October market resolves on the same register, read on 31 October 2026. It resolves YES if the case is shown as closed on or before that day, and NO if it is still open, including where a settlement has been announced but nothing has been entered on the docket. If the register cannot be read that day, reports from Reuters and the Financial Times settle it.
We found nine cases since 2019 like this one. In each, a US competition authority, the Federal Trade Commission, the Justice Department or a group of state attorneys general, went to a federal court to stop a merger that had already been announced. We counted the days from the filing to the day the court closed the case, whatever closed it: a settlement, a ruling for either side, or the companies walking away. We checked whether each was over within 232 days, the gap here between the filing and the first day of trial.