Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.

Welcome back to The Rainmaker, my private newsletter focused on the legal maneuvering inside Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street.

For this week’s edition, I chatted with Daniel Petrocelli about his trial defense next month of Penguin Random House’s attempt to acquire Simon & Schuster, his AT&T-Time Warner antitrust saga, and what’s new with Kesha and Chris Cuomo. Also this week: Hollywood’s nastiest producer feud may be going to trial, Elon Musk and Twitter get a Chancery judge, and Rep. Katie Hill’s revenge porn case heads towards bankruptcy.

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That said, I’d argue that this case is potentially very significant, and maybe just as big as the government’s ongoing pursuits against Big Tech. OK, perhaps not quite as huge as the F.T.C.’s fight to break up Facebook, but nevertheless this case is a very important bid to sharpen regulatory teeth against so-called monopsony—that being any market where a single buyer dominates. Guess who cares about market consolidation of buyers? That would be anyone selling. Particularly, anyone selling labor services. That’s why unions throughout the nation will be following this trial closely. For many years, they’ve argued that the government should scrutinize proposed mergers for their impact on jobs; up until now, many antitrust cops have focused instead on the effect of mergers on consumer prices. In other words, there’s more on the line here than just book advances...