Marriott International filed a motion Friday to compel discovery from Dynasty Marketing Group, one of several defendants in its novel Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, alleging infringement of Marriott trademarks by robocalling Marriott impersonators. Marriott seeks "full and complete answers," plus the production of documents, "responsive" to its discovery requests, said a memorandum in support of its motion (docket 1:21-cv-00610).
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago on Friday denied T-Mobile’s motion to transfer the class action challenging its Sprint buy as anticompetitive to the same Southern District of New York court that cleared the transaction in early 2020. Durkin on Tuesday set a telephone status hearing for Oct. 21 at 9:45 a.m. CDT.
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