Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery & Fox Officially Lose Latest Move To Kill Venu Sports Streaming Suit From Fubo; Trial Still On For 2025 – Deadline

                By <a href="https://deadline.com/author/dpatten/"><span>Dominic Patten</span></a>             <br>Executive Editor, Legal, Labor &amp; Politics<br>   Unless someone gets off the bench to make a deal, <a  href="https://deadline.com/tag/disney/"  id="auto-tag_disney"  data-tag="disney"  >Disney</a>, <a  href="https://deadline.com/tag/warner-bros-discovery/"  id="auto-tag_warner-bros-discovery"  data-tag="warner-bros-discovery"  >Warner Bros. Discovery</a> &amp; <a  href="https://deadline.com/tag/fox/"  id="auto-tag_fox"  data-tag="fox"  >Fox</a>&#8216;s big play into sports streaming looks like it is going to trial in October 2025, a federal judge ordered today. <br>   Making official what she told lawyers and executives for the lumbering media giants and upstart <a  href="https://deadline.com/tag/fubo-tv/"  id="auto-tag_fubo-tv"  data-tag="fubo-tv"  >Fubo TV</a> on December 13 in court, U.S. District Court Judge Margaret M. Garnett Monday ordered that efforts to toss out the David Gandler run outlet&rsquo;s lawsuit against their <a  href="https://deadline.com/tag/venu-sports/"  id="auto-tag_venu-sports"  data-tag="venu-sports"  >Venu Sports</a> streamer had failed.<br>    &#8220;As discussed on the record with the parties at the oral argument held on December 13, 2024, Fox&#8217;s motion to sever claims and transfer venue is DENIED; Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s motion to dismiss is DENIED; the Disney Defendants&#8217; motion to dismiss is DENIED; and Fox&#8217;s motion to dismiss is DENIED,&#8221; it said in the court docket today. &#8220;The Court&#8217;s opinion and orders on these motions, having been read into the record on December 13, 2024, can be accessed by ordering the transcript for that proceeding once that transcript has been unsealed and made available.&#8221;      <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="1">                <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;"   class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article1-uid0"         class="adw-1 adh-1" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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