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Judge OKs final settlement in Sprint class action
Class Action |
2007/09/10 13:02
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| A federal judge in Kansas approved a final settlement in a class-action lawsuit between Sprint Corp. and nearly 1,700 former employees who claimed they were laid off because of their age. The two sides reached a $57 million settlement in May, which got its final approval by District Judge John Lungstrum. Roughly $20 million will go to the nearly 20 attorneys who handled the case for the plaintiffs, as well as other court costs, according to John Phillips, a Blackwell Sanders LLP lawyer who served as special master for the case. Shirley Williams originally filed the discrimination case after she and several other employees were laid off in October 2001. Layoffs occurred again in March 2003. The plaintiffs accused the company of using a computerized performance management system to determine which employees to let go. The plaintiffs contended that the system unfairly singled out employees older than 40. A Sprint Nextel Corp. spokesman said at the time of the settlement agreement in May that the company settled the case to move on with business. A Sprint Nextel representative was not immediately available for comment on Monday. |
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Class action or a representative action is a form of lawsuit in which a large group of people collectively bring a claim to court and/or in which a class of defendants is being sued. This form of collective lawsuit originated in the United States and is still predominantly a U.S. phenomenon, at least the U.S. variant of it. In the United States federal courts, class actions are governed by Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule. Since 1938, many states have adopted rules similar to the FRCP. However, some states like California have civil procedure systems which deviate significantly from the federal rules; the California Codes provide for four separate types of class actions. As a result, there are two separate treatises devoted solely to the complex topic of California class actions. Some states, such as Virginia, do not provide for any class actions, while others, such as New York, limit the types of claims that may be brought as class actions. They can construct your law firm a brand new website, lawyer website templates and help you redesign your existing law firm site to secure your place in the internet. |
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