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T-Mobile Data Breach Multidistrict Legislation Overview:
- Who: T-Mobile is negotiating with the counsel of dozens of plaintiffs to determine where to hear consolidated class action lawsuits claiming it failed to secure the data of its customers from an August data breach.
- Why: T-Mobile is arguing against having the MDL be heard in Washington due to what it claims is a shortage of judges.
- Where: The case involves complaints from all across the country.
T-Mobile is working with the counsel of plaintiffs to determine in what state to hear dozens of consolidated class action lawsuits lobbied against the company over an August data breach that exposed the data of millions of its customers.
Counsel for the plaintiffs has proposed five separate locations for the trial while T-Mobile is arguing against holding it in Washington — its home state — due to what it claims is a shortage of available judges, Law360 reports.
Plaintiffs from multiple states around the country claim T-Mobile was negligent in allowing the data breach, which exposed the personal information of more than 50 million customers.
Some plaintiffs argued last week to have pending complaints litigated in venues where they originated while T-Mobile has argued for them to be consolidated in the Western District of Missouri, Law360 reports.
T-Mobile Wants The Cases to Be Consolidated in Missouri Due To No Judicial Vacancies, Central Accessibility
T-Mobile claims the cases should not be consolidated in Washington due to what it claims are vacancies that leaves the courts there understaffed with only two active judges up until September.
Newly hired judges, T-Mobile argues, still need to “get up to speed” so they do not solve the understaffing issue, reports Law360.
T-Mobile argues that it is important for judges to be well-versed on the content of the complaints filed against the company, calling the sweeping multi district litigation both time- and fact-intensive.
The company claims Missouri is the ideal location for the consolidated class action lawsuits due to it having no judicial vacancies, its central accessibility and its location 20 minutes from T-Mobile’s secondary headquarters, reports Law360.
The plaintiffs’ counsel has argued, however, that, despite the vacancies, judges in Washington would be able to get up to speed since there are no pending MDLs and that one of the judges in place has already been informed about the case.
Counsel for one plaintiff agreed that the lawsuits should not be consolidated in Washington but should instead be sent to California, where she says a lot of plaintiffs reside, Law360 reports .
Litigation against T-Mobile became so sweeping that one complaint was halted last month after the company asked a judge to pause the claims until it could decide on whether to group them all together for an MDL.
Were you affected by T-Mobile’s August data breach? Let us know in the comments!
The T-Mobile Data Breach Multidistrict Legislation is In re: T-Mobile Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL number 3019, before the U.S Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
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Please add me. I received a letter that my information was compromised
Please add me to this lawsuit because I received a letter advising thaty information had been compromised and offered credit monitoring.
Please contact me I as well was severely affected by this data breach that has affected my credit, causing to put a freeze on my credit. Also had to do police reports, hours at my local phone company office just for them to cost me more and more money, months of payment with no service but was told I was using my service but wouldn’t give me proof of my phone records hours in phone with costumer service. They had me mail my phone into their company investigator to see what was going on with my phone, never contacted me back. Finally getting ahold someone to be told I had to purchase my phone back from them in order to get it back because it was my fault my phone was acting up because I locked my Sims, I allowed my battery to get wet, everything was put off on me. Still til today I never got my phone back, my account was taken over, got none of my money back, they threatened to call the police on me because I was causing an issue in the store because I wanted answers. At times I fault like I was losing my mind because this company that I was with for 5 years all of a sudden didn’t have towers to over my service, I never existed having an account. And the issues just kept going on for several months. So will someone please email me or contact me.
I should be added they did me so wrong MY CREDIT SCORE WAS RUINED on this data breach and more as well in a 3 month period very bad company PLEASE ADD ME TO THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
I have serval proof of the data breach on my by a security monitoring system.
I’ve been a long time customer of t-mobile. How do I find out if my personal info was breeched??
Add me
Add me.. I was affected..
They got me for all my information
My ID number and SSN got stolen from T-Mobile so y’all can add me on this list