Mediator Reassigned in T-Mobile Case After First Mediator ‘Reported a Conflict’

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Preston Deavers for Southern Ohio in Columbus assigned Ralph Breitfeller of Kegler Brown as a mediator in the sex-discrimination lawsuit brought against T-Mobile by Heidi Cramer, its former director-sales, said a text-only notice Tuesday (docket 2:22-cv-03800). Breitfeller’s bio describes him as a civil litigation specialist in state and federal cases and private arbitration proceedings. The previously assigned mediator, Christopher Jones, senior counsel with Calfee Halter (see 2308020011), “reported a conflict,” said the notice. Cramer alleges T-Mobile assigned her “sole blame” for the wrongful actions of her male co-workers when they engaged in a scheme of artificially inflating sales to small- and medium-sized business customers (see 2210260038).