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Settlement Conference Reset in Crown Castle vs. Black Electric

Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth Gesner for Maryland signed a letter order Friday (docket 1:22-cv-02497) rescheduling a Feb. 7 settlement conference to March 12 in Crown Castle’s infrastructure complaint against contractor Black Electric. Her previous requirement still stands that the parties are to exchange a settlement demand and offer before the conference, and she set a new Feb. 27 deadline for the submission of ex parte letters summarizing the status of the case, including the history of settlement talks (see 2212120012). Crown Castle alleges Black Electric’s workers damaged a conduit holding telecommunications fiber that Crown Castle installed along Maryland's Hatem Bridge spanning the Susquehanna River, but Black Electric denies culpability and seeks to dismiss the complaint.