August 12, 2015
Lead counsel who represented Sprint Nextel Corp. shareholders in a class action over the company's 2005 merger with Nextel won approval for nearly $29 million in attorneys' fees from a Kansas federal judge on Wednesday, months after securing a massive settlement for their clients.
March 30, 2015
Sprint Nextel Corp. agreed Monday to pay $131 million to settle a shareholder class action against the company and several former top executives over stock losses investors allegedly suffered during the company's $37.8 billion merger with Nextel in 2005.
March 27, 2014
A Kansas federal judge on Thursday granted class certification to a group of shareholders suing Sprint Nextel Corp. and several of its former top brass over stock losses they allegedly suffered during the company's $37.8 billion merger with Nextel in 2005.
September 29, 2011
The heightened standard of review applied in the U.S. Supreme Court's Twombly and Iqbal rulings shouldn't apply to an answer to a complaint, a Kansas federal judge ruled Thursday, shooting down a putative class of shareholders' bid to strike parts of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s defense in a suit challenging a 2005 merger.