Sprint Nextel is being sued in a federal class action claiming it...
Sprint Nextel is being sued in a federal class action claiming it wrongly charged wireless customers $1.2 billion in early termination fees, court filings said. The ETF suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, was brought by…
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Scott Bursor, an attorney who brought an ETF case against Sprint in California state court in July. The preliminary ruling in the July case ordered the carrier to refund $73 million to affected customers. Bursor claimed the July ruling proves Sprint ETF practices break California law, court filings show. The fees “bear no relation to any cost incurred by Sprint and the fees were established as an arbitrary penalty to prevent dissatisfied customers from leaving,” he said. “Now we will prove that the fees violate federal law as well.” The first case is still pending, a company spokesman said, terming the new suit “cynical and opportunistic,” based on a premise opposite the jury’s July findings. Bursor brought federal suit days after Sprint unveiled a new ETF policy (CD Nov 3 p12).