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10 Jan, 2008 1:45 am
Source: Lexology, January 10,2008. A court may grant a pro se litigant leeway on procedural matters such as pleading requirements Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP "In
McZeal v. Sprint Nextel Corp., No. 06-1548 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 14, 2007), the Federal Circuit
vacated the district court's dismissal of Alfred McZeal, Jr.'s complaint, finding that he had met the minimal pleading requirements for his patent and trademark infringement claims, and
remanded for further proceedings."
11 Sep, 2007 7:14 am
... a sigh of relief, when U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum approved a $57 million settlement that resolved age discrimination claims against Sprint Nextel Corp. over the firing of nearly 1,700 former employees. The settlement ends a lawsuit that
alleged Sprint had engaged in a pattern and practice of age discrimination by targeting for layoffs employees who were 40 years of age and
older. The case was filed ...
21 Feb, 2007 9:01 am
Sprint Nextel Corp. allegedly defrauded its customers by charging them a 1 percent fee for a
0.7 percent business tax that doesn't go into effect until next year. The Texas attorney general claims the company ... law by collecting more from their customers than the amount of
tax the company will have to pay. The lawsuit seeks a court order that would require Sprint to stop imposing the fee and reimburse all
customers who have paid it. Source: "Sprint Sued; Fee Deemed 'Deceptive'" by April ...
11 Sep, 2007 8:45 am
The Kansas City Star reports on the recent settlement of a class action alleging age discrimination against Sprint Nextel Corp. The case involved about 1,700 former employees and settled for $57 million. The plaintiffs alleged that Sprint targeted for layoff employees age 40 and older. Sprint denied the charges. The case is noteworthy for the
amount of discovery that was conducted. Two million pages of documents were exchanged and 600 depositions were taken. The class ...
11 Sep, 2007 8:36 pm
NTP, a Virginia-based patent holding company, has filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [EDVa] against Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc.,
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA. The NTP complaint seeks
unspecified damages and an injunction requiring the defendants to stop the alleged patent infringement. NTP previously prevailed against RIM, obtaining a 612.5 million settlement. See
also ZDNet--> NTP: We sue the (wireless) world.
17 Dec, 2008 11:59 am
... employees of Sprint's Business Direct Channel. Harlow v. Sprint Nextel Corp., ___ F.Supp.2d ___ (D.Kan. December 10, 2008) [Slip Opn., at 1-2]. According to the allegations underlying the class action, these
computer problems ... difficulty in determining that a class action is a superior means of resolving the issues presented in the complaint, rejecting Sprint's objection that "a class action of this magnitude would be unmanageable because of the individualized inquiries to each ...
20 Nov, 2008 12:27 pm
... "Sprint failed to pay [plaintiffs] proper commissions." Harlow v. Sprint Nextel Corp., 574 F.Supp.2d 1224, 1225 (D. Kan. 2008). According to the class ... class action, which the district court treated as a motion for
judgment on the pleadings because Sprint had already filed an answer to the class action complaint. Id. At the time the district ... concluded
that the Seventh Circuit opinion relied upon by the defense - Glass v. Kemper Corp., 133 F.3d 999 (7th Cir. 1998), which held that "the Illinois ...
13 Sep, 2007 3:47 pm
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ A federal judge has given preliminary approval for Sprint Nextel
Corp. to pay $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it overcharged in passing along a federally mandated phone ... fund a percentage of their gross revenue from
interstate and international calls. The Federal Communications Commission sets the contribution rate. Sprint described the fee on its bills as
"Federal Universal Service Fee" or "Carrier Universal Service Charge," while AT&T called it ...
8 Oct, 2007 11:06 am
... back from the brink Monday, saying it has settled for $80 million a patent suit filed by Sprint Nextel Corp. On Sept. 25, a jury in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., found that Vonage infringed on six Sprint patents, and ordered Vonage to pay $69.5 million in damages. Monday's settlement resolves all claims in the dispute, the companies said.
Sprint agreed to license Vonage its portfolio of more than 100 patents on connecting calls between a regular telephone network and a ...
18 Oct, 2007 8:19 pm
... and The InsiderExclusive TV Show with Steve Murphy. Roger also recommends this story about how Sprint Nextel Corp., seeking to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone, has introduced a touch-screen handset ... can download music and play video. The Touch
phone, made by High Tech Computer Corp. of Taiwan, also has a Web browser and can send e-mail. It ... Wireless and AT&T Inc. Dropped calls and other glitches caused
Sprint to lose about 850,000 long-term contract subscribers in the past year. You can also ...
23 Jun 3:01 pm
Old Republic Insurance Company has made a counterclaim against Sprint Nextel Corp. seeking a
declaration that no coverage is owed under a 1999-2000 claims made policy for a 2003 securities lawsuit. According to ... good, when it was aware that the employees would likely be
forced to leave the company in the near future. That litigation is ongoing. According to Sprint's complaint, its insurers are arguing amongst
themselves regarding whether policies in effect in 1999-2000 cover the 2003 claims, or ...
8 Oct, 2007 8:38 am
... Firms Series" TV Show with Steve Murphy. He is closely following this story about how Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. took a step back from the brink Monday,
saying it has settled for $80 million a patent suit filed by Sprint Nextel Corp. On Sept. 25,
a jury in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., found that Vonage infringed on six Sprint patents, and ordered Vonage to pay $69.5
million in damages. Monday's settlement resolves all claims in ...
25 Jun 9:08 am
Sprint Nextel Corp. won't face a nationwide class-action lawsuit over claims it overcharged
data-card customers for taxes and refused to issue refunds. U.S. Judge Robert Bryan concluded Sprint customers couldn't show that being allowed
to press claims about wireless-network card charges as a group would insure the case would be handled efficiently. Consumers contend Sprint
officials improperly tacked on taxes and surcharges to their bills. A consumer-advocacy accused Sprint ...
12 Jun, 2008 10:01 pm
Sprint Nextel Corp. announced today that a California jury ruled in its favor in a trial
involving the contentious issue of early termination fees (ETFs) in wireless service contracts. (Roger Cheng, Jury Sides With Sprint on Early
Exit Charges (June 12, 2008) www.smartmoney.com.) A number of similar class actions have been in various stages of progress, but the Sprint
class action was the first to ...
19 Feb, 2008 8:29 am
... , filed a patent infringement lawsuit against AT&T, Inc., Verizon Communications, Inc., Qwest Communications International, Inc., Bellsouth Corporation, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Global Crossing Limited, and Level 3 Communications, Inc. The complaint was filed in the
Marshall Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and alleges that the defendants' services and systems utilizing ...
19 Feb, 2008 8:29 am
... , filed a patent infringement lawsuit against AT&T, Inc., Verizon Communications, Inc., Qwest Communications International, Inc., Bellsouth Corporation, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Global Crossing Limited, and Level 3 Communications, Inc. The complaint was filed in the
Marshall Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and alleges that the defendants' services and systems utilizing ...
10 Dec, 2008 10:08 am
Datascape, Inc. v. Sprint Nextel Corp., Sprint
Spectrum, L.P., & Sprint Solutions, Inc., Case No. 1:07-cv-0640 (N.D. Ga. Sept. 29, 2008) (Cooper, J.) Plaintiff Datascape brought this
patent ... its services on an interactive website available to residents of Georgia. Based on the evidence presented, the Court was "unable to find that Sprint Nextel has contacts with the State of Georgia sufficient to confer either general or specific jurisdiction."
With regard to ...
27 Aug, 2007 4:19 pm
... Jeff Burton's race car because NASCAR asserted that this action would violate its contract with Sprint Nextel. In June of 2003, Sprint Nextel Corp. reportedly paid $700
million for its exclusive sponsorship rights for the NASCAR Cup Series ... 2007 Driver and Car Owner Agreement. The court noted that an addendum to the RCR Agreement, designed to
effectuate the narrow exceptions for Nextel's exclusivity, contained a grandfather clause permitting RCR to "renew it's non complying
sponsorship so long as ...
11 Sep 3:30 am
Sprint Nextel Corp. v. Executive Risk Indemn et. al. (District Court of Kansas, September, 1,
2009) Sprint Nextel Corporation has filed suit against a number of insurers providing Directors and
Officers coverage seeking a ... Judge Murguia of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas disagreed noting the substantial amount of expenses Sprint Nextel has incurred in the underlying litigation and concluded that the coverage dispute was "ripe" for
trial. For a ...
11 Jun, 2007 3:04 pm
... single worker's claim.) The case involves Ellen Mendelson, who worked for a company in Kansas City, Mo., named Sprint/United Management Co.
(a subsidiary of Sprint Nextel Corp.) She was on the payroll there from 1989 to November 2002,
working in business development activities. In the fall of 2002, the Sprint unit, hit by the recession that generally spread through the
telecom industry, decided to downsize its payroll. Other Sprint units elsewhere were also ...
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