Late-May Action Seen on Petition to Transfer T-Mobile Data Breach MDL

The petition before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to transfer and consolidate the 16 class actions arising from T-Mobile’s most recent data breach (see 2303270010) “has been fully briefed,” said a joint status report Wednesday in one of those cases, Lopez v. T-Mobile (docket 1:23-cv-01263), in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The parties anticipate the matter will be scheduled for “consideration and/or oral argument” at the JPML’s next hearing session, “which will likely take place at the end of May, said the report. The parties propose continuing the stay in Lopez pending a JPML ruling on the petition and providing a further status update to the court by June 15, it said.