Plaintiffs’ Opposition to T-Mobile’s Motion for Interlocutory Appeal Due Dec. 14

The plaintiffs’ opposition is due Dec. 14 to T-Mobile’s motion to certify for interlocutory appeal the court’s Nov. 2 order denying T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss the antitrust case brought by seven AT&T and Verizon customers over T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy (see 2311290042), said a clerk’s docket entry Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. T-Mobile’s reply in support of the motion is due Dec. 22, said the clerk’s entry. The plaintiffs allege that the anticompetitive nature of the T-Mobile/Sprint transaction caused their own wireless rates to soar. In denying T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin found that T-Mobile/Sprint likely “exacerbated the risk of price coordination” in the wireless market space, thereby reducing competition among all the carriers (see 2311030011). Durkin set a telephone status hearing in the case for Feb. 6 at 9 a.m. CST.