Parties Seek Stay in AirTags Case to Pursue ‘Alternative Means’ of Resolution
Attorneys for plaintiffs Lauren Hughes and “Jane Doe” and for defendant Apple seek the approval of the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco to stay the AirTags privacy class action “to seek an alternative means of resolving…
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the dispute without the need to consume scarce judicial resources,” said their stipulation Monday (docket 3:22-cv-07668). The parties ask that all proceedings be stayed and all deadlines deferred pending the outcome of their efforts “to resolve the dispute through alternative means,” it said. They alternatively ask that all proceedings be stayed and all deadlines deferred until Sept. 5, it said, which would be nine months to the day after the class action was filed. Absent the stay, March 15 is Apple’s deadline to answer the complaint. The AirTag location transmitter is “the weapon of choice of stalkers and abusers,” alleges the class action brought against Apple by Hughes of Travis County, Texas, and Doe of Brooklyn, New York, who claim to be victims of AirTag stalking (see 2212120023).