ZTE Granted Motion to Join in Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss in RF Case

U.S. District Judge James Cain for Western Louisiana signed an order Friday (docket 2:21-cv-00923) granting ZTE’s Oct. 25 motion to “join in and adopt” the motion to dismiss filed by its cellphone industry co-defendants in the RF radiation case in Lake Charles (see 2210250030). The defendants are alleged to have worked to conceal and suppress information showing that many handsets don’t comply with the FCC’s specific absorption rate limitations for how much RF radiation is absorbed by phone users. The widow and two sons of pastor Frank Walker allege that this led to his death from brain cancer. ZTE had sought to adopt the co-defendants' motion as a fallback if its own motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction was denied.