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IntoMobile says this federal class action lawsuit against Sprint demands refunds on ETF fees unfairly collected on customers as far back as 1999, for a total of $1.2 billion dollars. It looks like it's being led by the same legal team behind the successful $72 million California class action against Sprint over ETFs earlier this year. One of the lawyers says:

"After a full trial on the merits, we proved that Sprint Nextel's termination fees violated California law," said Scott Bursor, lead trial lawyer for the plaintiffs. "We proved that the fees bear no relation to any cost incurred by the company. And we proved that the fees were established as an arbitrary penalty to prevent dissatisfied customers from leaving. Now we will prove that the fees violate federal law as well."

http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/04/sprint-targetted-in-1-billion-class-action-lawsuit-over-early-termination-fees.html