T-Mobile, N.Y. Village ‘Amenable’ to Seeking Cell Tower Settlement, Judge Told

Interrogatories and the first requests for production of documents are due Dec. 15 in discovery in T-Mobile’s cell tower fight against the village of Chestnut Ridge, New York, according to a case discovery plan and scheduling order signed Tuesday (docket 7:23-cv-05852) by U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel for Southern New York in White Plains. T-Mobile alleges that Chestnut Ridge violated Section 704 of the Communications Act through its “unreasonable and unsupportable denials” of T-Mobile’s applications to build a 105-foot monopole cell tower (see 2307110008). All fact discovery in the case is to be completed by May 3, and all expert discovery is to be done by Aug. 19, said the scheduling order. T-Mobile's counsel, with Chestnut Ridge’s consent, proposed the scheduling order to the judge in a letter Tuesday. “The parties are amenable to exploring a settlement of this litigation, whether now or upon the completion of discovery,” said the letter. They agreed to the proposed schedule “ito provide the parties with sufficient time to try to reach such a settlement at various stages of discovery,” it said.