Aug. 9 Settlement Conference Set in DirecTV’s Suit vs. Telemarketing Impersonators

U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy Payne for Eastern Texas signed an order Monday (docket 6:22-cv-00423) scheduling an Aug. 9 settlement conference at the Marshall federal courthouse in DirecTV’s fraud complaint against telemarketing impersonators who prey on consumers (see 2211010049). Payne’s order emphatically requires the parties to make a “good faith exchange” of settlement offers “before the conference!” Trial counsel and a representative of each party “with full settlement authority” are required to attend the conference, it said.