A Denver state judge said on Monday that he will hear arguments beginning on Aug. 12 in Colorado’s case seeking to block Kroger’s $25 billion purchase of rival grocer Albertsons. The order by District Court Judge Andrew Luxen puts Colorado two weeks ahead of a similar hearing before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and other states’ separate nationwide lawsuit challenging the merger. Colorado’s attorney general, like the FTC, is seeking a preliminary injunction to halt the supermarket mega-merger.
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