A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from a group of consumers looking to challenge the $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros.Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote that the plaintiffs — three current Paramount+ subscribers and two prospective subscribers — presented a lack of standing in their suit. She also ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish “cognizable” economic fallout that would invoke antitrust regulation. She later added, “Plaintiffs’ standing theory amounts to little more than the assertion that they are consumers who watch television and go to the movies, and therefore a merger between Entertainment companies would injure them.” “I believe this fight is not really about market share,” Ellison wrote. “I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases: the news.