Paramount Skydance agreed to delay its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery for up to 10 months on Friday as the court examines the merger’s legality in the face of a lawsuit led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.Paramount said it would halt the merger until either the remedy of its legal battle with the state attorneys general who sued to block the merger or June 1, 2027, whichever date comes sooner. Paramount and the plaintiff attorneys general in the case agreed the merger “shall not close, be consummated, or otherwise be completed” until that time, and Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, who is presiding over the case, signed off on the agreement Friday.The agreement comes after Martinez-Olguin granted a temporary restraining order on Monday, halting the merger until an Aug. 3 hearing on the matter. Bonta filed the lawsuit on July 13, arguing that the $110 billion merger would “extinguish competition between Paramount and Warner Bros. and inflict substantial harm on movie theatres, basic cable distributors, and, ultimately, audiences nationwide.” The Friday agreement also canceled the Aug. 3 hearing date for the plaintiff’s preliminary injunction.