Parties to Begin Discovery in 30 Days in ID Theft Case vs. T-Mobile
Plaintiff Jose Alarcon and defendant T-Mobile plan to begin exchanging written discovery requests and initial disclosures within the next 30 days on Alarcon’s allegations that T-Mobile violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (see 2211040006), said a joint discovery plan…
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(docket 2:22-cv-07831) filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The parties request a settlement conference before a magistrate judge “after some discovery is completed,” said the plan. The parties estimate a trial will last two to three days, it said. Alarcon alleges T-Mobile made no attempt to investigate his identity theft claims but instead kept trying to collect from him the debt on the fraudulent account and reported his delinquency to the major credit agencies. T-Mobile asserts any violation of the statute, if it occurred at all, was the result of “bona fide error.”