In Re: Sprint Nextel Corp., No. 09-8038

In a class action suit against Sprint under the Kansas Unfair Trade and Consumer Protection Act alleging that defendant conspired with other cell phone providers to impose artificially high prices for text-message service, defendant's petition for leave to appeal from a remand order is granted and the order remanding the case to state court is vacated and remanded to give the plaintiffs another opportunity to prove that the proposed class satisfied the requirements of the home-state exception.     

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Appellate Information

On Petition for Permission to Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division

Decided January 28, 2010

Judges

Before:  Flaum,  Evans, and Sykes,  Circuit Judges

Opinion by Circuit Judge  Evans