[Cboldt]

-- Hmm, Fed Judge, not SCOTUS. Do you think it will go up to SCOTUS? --

The order of appeal for this sort of case is to Circuit Court. But Judge Leon has set out in his ruling, a denial of stay pending appeal, giving the parties a huge window of time to close the deal before appeal. He says, in this order, if he was asked to stay pending appeal, he would reject the request.

It's a very heavy handed order. Maybe justified, but still heavy handed.

Opinion and Order - US v. AT&T - Disctrict Of Columbia Civil Case 17-2511

[little jeremiah]

Could the DoJ or whoever was opposed, could pull some kind of legal trick to stay it until it got to a higher court?