T-Mobile/Sprint Judge Seeks Proposed Discovery Deadlines by Nov. 28

U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin for Northern Illinois in Chicago ordered the parties in the litigation against T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy to file a joint written report by Nov. 28 setting proposed discovery deadlines in the case going forward, said his docket entry notification Friday (docket 1:22-cv-03189). The judge on Thursday denied the joint T-Mobile-SoftBank motion to dismiss the antitrust complaint for failure to state a claim, finding that T-Mobile/Sprint likely reduced wireless competition (see 2311030011). He did grant SoftBank’s separate motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and improper venue for its role in the 2020 transaction. Seven consumer plaintiffs, all AT&T or Verizon customers, seek to vacate T-Mobile/Sprint on grounds that the transaction caused their own wireless rates to soar.