AT&T Urges Court to Deny FCRA Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Discovery

The U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa should deny Linda Surrency’s April 2 motion to compel discovery from AT&T (see 2404040035), said the defendant’s opposition Tuesday (docket 8:23-cv-02323). Surrency’s Fair Credit Reporting Act complaint alleges AT&T, Equifax and the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE) were “plainly deficient” in their investigations of Surrency’s credit reporting dispute over identity theft (see 2310160035). The plaintiff’s claims against Equifax and NCTUE have since been settled. Surrency seeks an order compelling AT&T to provide “complete answers” in discovery to her 10 interrogatories and 13 document requests. She alleges that a fraudulent DirecTV account was opened under her name. Surrency should be seeking discovery from the “proper party,” DirecTV, rather than moving to compel “burdensome and irrelevant discovery” from AT&T, said the carrier's opposition. AT&T isn't DirecTV, it said: “The two are different companies.”