A panel of three judges hearing the government’s appeal of its lawsuit aiming to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger peppered a Department of Justice lawyer with critical questions while going notably easier on the attorney for AT&T.

This morning’s nearly two-hour session at the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. C…

The long and winding journey of one of the most contested mergers in the history of the media business will take a major step toward its legal conclusion in December.

The D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals said judges will hear oral arguments in the United States v. AT&T beginning at 9:30AM ET on Thursday…