Judge Rules Experts Can't File Brief in District Court Case Against T-Mobile/Sprint
Judge Victor Marrero of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion by experts to file an amicus brief in favor of T-Mobile/Sprint in the state challenge to the proposed deal. “This motion comes over…
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two weeks after the completion of post-trial closing arguments, and the Court is not persuaded that the amicus brief would be sufficiently timely or useful to be of assistance at this time,” said Tuesday's order (in Pacer) in docket 1:19-cv-05434. George Bittlingmayer, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Tom Hazlett, Justin Hurwitz, Jonathan Klick, Kevin Tsui, Glenn Woroch, Joshua Wright and John Yun sought to file. “After conceding that district courts have ‘broad discretion’ to allow the filing of amicus briefs, Plaintiffs ask this Court to deny the instant motion and thereby disregard the views of experts in the field of antitrust economics who strongly disagree with many of the views expressed in the amicus brief in support of Plaintiffs,” they pleaded Monday (in Pacer).