AT&T Asks Judge to Compel Core to Produce Discovery Materials
The continued finger-pointing between AT&T and Core Communications over Core’s legal fight to recover $11.4 million in unpaid access services charges from AT&T (see 2301230031) prompted AT&T’s motion Wednesday (docket 2:21-cv-02771) for help from the court in resolving the outstanding…
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discovery issues between the sides. Defendant AT&T refused to pay plaintiff Core for its access services, claiming nearly all the calls that CoreTel affiliates in Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia and West Virginia connected were fraudulent. “AT&T has attempted to confer in good faith with Core about various discovery disputes, many of which relate to written discovery served over a year ago,” AT&T told U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. AT&T “still has not received the discovery that it is entitled to and that it needs to comply with the existing expert report deadlines,” it said. The parties reached agreement in early December to exchange 14 months of call detail records, and a list of data fields within those CDRs, said AT&T. Core provided the CDRs “but has failed to respond to basic and critically important questions -- which AT&T has raised with Core four separate times -- as to the meaning and type of data within the CDRs,” it said. Core failed in its obligation to supplement its interrogatory responses in a timely manner, it said. It seeks an order compelling Core to produce the required discovery materials by Friday.