State AGs Say DT Improperly Withheld Thousands of Pages in T-Mobile/Sprint Discovery
State attorneys general challenging T-Mobile buying Sprint seek a hearing on Deutsche Telekom's alleged “improper withholding of thousands of pages of responsive documents in discovery,” said a Monday letter (in Pacer) to Judge Robert Lehrburger at U.S. District Court for…
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the Southern District of New York. After T-Mobile parent DT withheld 38 percent of requested documents as privileged, AGs found “errors and oddities” in the company’s privilege log and raised them with the company, the states said. “The total page count of documents impacted by DT’s improper privilege invocations is currently 6,213.” Order DT to “re-review each entry on any previously issued log, produce any documents improperly withheld, and certify that an experienced attorney admitted to practice in the United States has considered the propriety of its privilege invocations,” the AGs asked. T-Mobile didn’t comment. Trial on the AGs challenge to the merger starts Dec. 9 (see 1909260046).