Judge Grants Pro Se Plaintiff’s Motion to Intervene in T-Mobile MDL

U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes for Western Missouri in Kansas City granted Jeff Edwards' Aug. 8 motion to intervene as of right as an additional co-plaintiff in the multidistrict litigation against T-Mobile’s arising from the carrier’s 2022 data breach, said the judge’s text-only order Wednesday (docket 4:23-md-03073). Edwards is a current and longstanding T-Mobile customer “dating back to at least 2012,” said his pro se motion to intervene. As with all T-Mobile customers, Edwards relied on T-Mobile to keep his personal and business information “safe from any unauthorized use,” it said. T-Mobile didn’t use “reasonable security methods, procedures and practices required so as to preserve and protect the nature of the sensitive unencrypted information it was maintaining,” causing Edwards’ identity and sensitive information “to be exposed,” it said.