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Sprint Ordered To Pay $73 Million After Losing Early Termination Fee Lawsuit

July 30, 2008 by Robb Dunewood 2 Comments

Alameda County, California Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw has ordered Sprint to pay $54.7 million in fees back to customers who were charged erroneous early termination fees but didn’t pay them and $18.2 in cash to those customers that actually paid the bogus charges. This lawsuit is so popular you can catch a whole page in the www.yellowpages.com about it.

It is probably safe to call the $73 million that Sprint was ordered a drop in the bucket if the ruling stands. Sprint has two weeks to respond to the judgement. What may be worse for Sprint than the $73 million is the rejection of Sprint’s argument that federal law pre-empts California law which means that more states may come after Sprint individually as compared to one big federal case which may come as well.

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  1. bluehorseshoe says

    July 30, 2008 at 10:39 am

    They are so screwed. More great PR from them.

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  2. Jesse says

    August 21, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Is anyone dealing with this elsewhere? Sprint misrepresented the agreement by failing to disclose to me that the early termination fee would be charged per line.

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