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Wash. Judge Denies T-Mobile Motion to Dismiss Cellphone Privacy Case

U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian for Eastern Washington in Richland denied T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss a negligence case and stay discovery, said his signed order Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-05166) calling the carrier’s motion to stay discovery “premature.” It’s the court’s practice…

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to deny initial motions to dismiss with leave to renew and grant plaintiffs leave to file an amended complaint to cure any deficiencies alleged by defendants, the order said. Plaintiff Jane Doe alleged in her November complaint (see 2312070039) that a T-Mobile employee downloaded, without her consent, private images and videos from a cellphone she traded in at a T-Mobile store in a Washington mall.