Sprint Solutions Class Action Settlement Of Telephone Autodialer & Automatic Announcing Device Solicitation Class Action Lawsuit

A pending class action lawsuit settlement concerning auto dialing and telephone solicitations to current and former Sprint customers could affect their rights.

A class action settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit aginst Sprint Solutions, Inc. (“Sprint Solutions” or “Sprint” or “Defendant”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (captioned Sandra L. Palmer v. Sprint Solutions, Inc., Civil Class Action Case No. 09-cv-01211-JLR) alleging, among other things, that telephone calls were made either to Washington State residents using an automatic dialing and announcing device, or that consumers were called after they asked Sprint not to receive solicitation calls from Sprint, purportedly in violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, et seq. (“TCPA”), Washington’s Automatic Dialing and Announcing Device statute, Wash. Rev. Code § 80.36.400, et seq. (“WADAD”), and Washington’s Consumer Protection Act, Wash. Rev. Code § 19.86 et seq. (“WCPA”), according to the Sprint Solutions autodialer and automatic telephone announcing device solicitation TCPA class action settlement notice.

Under the Sprint Solutions autodialer and automatic telephone announcing device solicitation TCPA class action settlement, Sprint has reportedly agreed to pay $5.5 million into a Settlement Fund (the “Fund”) out of which Eligible Class Members who file qualified claims will receive money, which may be paid based on the total number of people who file a claim. In addition, the Fund will also be used to pay Class Counsel’s Court-awarded attorneys’ fees and costs, a service award to the Class Representative, and all costs of notice and claims administration.

Sprint also has reportedly agreed to change a message customers hear if they choose to call Sprint in response to a prerecorded message which identifies Sprint as having called for promotional purposes, so that this message will be identical in language and meaning to one referenced in the Settlement.

The Sprint Solutions autodialer and automatic telephone announcing device solicitation TCPA Settlement Class includes current or former individual, non-government and non-business Sprint customers who, while a customer, at any time after July 23, 2005 through June 13, 2011:

a. Lived in Washington State and received from Sprint directly or from its agents one or more commercial telephone solicitations that used an automatic dialing and announcing device; and/or

b. Lived in Washington State and received from Sprint directly or from its agents one or more commercial telephone solicitations less than one year after advising Sprint or its agents that he or she did not wish to be called again by Sprint; and/or

 c. Lived in the United States and received from Sprint directly or from its agents one or more commercial telephone solicitations more than 30 days after advising Sprint or its agents that he or she did not wish to be called again by Sprint.

Excluded from the Settlement Class is any individual customer who is also an employee of Sprint or its agents, and all persons who validly request exclusion from the Settlement Class.

The Court will reportedly hold a Final Settlement Hearing on October 21, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, 700 Stewart Street, Seattle, Washington 98101 to consider if the Sprint Solutions autodialer and automatic telephone announcing device solicitation TCPA Settlement is fair, reasonable and adequate, and should be granted final approval.

For more information on the Sprint Solutions autodialer and automatic telephone announcing device solicitation TCPA class action lawsuit settlement, visit the Palmer v. Sprint Solutions, Inc. class action settlement website:

www.palmersolicitationcallsettlement.com

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