3 Nonparties Won’t Oppose Motion to Compel Documents From T-Mobile/Sprint Trial
Nonparties Altice, AT&T, Comcast and the 13 states that unsuccessfully challenged T-Mobile's 2020 Sprint buy won't oppose the motion of seven AT&T and Verizon plaintiffs to compel T-Mobile to produce trial exhibits and deposition transcripts from the 2019 T-Mobile/Sprint bench…
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trial (see 2401180011), said T-Mobile and the seven plaintiffs in a joint statement Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. AT&T told the parties that it doesn’t think the AT&T documents at issue are relevant to the case, but that if any other nonparty files an opposition implicating broader issues, “it reserves the right to join that opposition,” said the statement. Feb. 7 is the deadline for the remaining nonparties -- Deutsche Telekom, Dish Network, Google, SoftBank and Verizon -- to file their oppositions to the motion to compel, it said. Replies are due Feb. 21, it said. The sought-after documents are “relevant and discoverable” under Rule 26 because they aren’t privileged and contain information directly related to the plaintiffs’ post-merger case, said the plaintiffs’ Jan. 17 motion. The plaintiffs contend the anticompetitive nature of the T-Mobile/Sprint transaction caused their own wireless rates to soar in the years since the transaction.