Judge Grants 30-Day Filing Delay in AT&T Suit Against Mass. Town

U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni for Massachusetts in Springfield granted AT&T’s unopposed motion for a 30-day extension of all deadlines in its infrastructure lawsuit against the town of Heath, said an electronic order Monday (docket 3:21-cv-30106). AT&T reached a tentative settlement agreement with the town and 10 of its resident intervenors but needed more time to draft and finalize the documents for the court’s approval (see 2210310031). AT&T sued in October 2021 to contest Heath’s allegedly unlawful denial of an application to construct and install a 180-foot-tall monopole cell tower to remedy a significant gap in wireless service coverage in the community. The judge ordered the parties to exchange “initial disclosures” by Nov. 30.