06/30/10 Court of Appeal Opinion Upholding Verizon Wireless Termination Fee Settlement

06/30/10 Verizon Wireless Termination Fee Settlement Upheld On Appeal

12/21/09 VerdictSearch lists Thomas v. Global Vision Products, Inc. (II) as the 2nd largest jury verdict in California in 2009.

12/2/09, The Recorder, “Class Lawyers Win $50M Over Hair-Loss Fix”

7/11/09 Financial Times, “Facebook accused of restricting its users”

7/10/09 Washington Post, “Power.com countersues Facebook over user data”

7/10/09 New York Times, “Power.com Fights Back Against Facebook”

7/10/09 Associated Press, “Social Network Aggregator Sues Facebook”

“To fight the case, the company has even hired Scott Bursor, a lawyer who successfully challenged this practice and obtained settlements.”
 
7/10/09 MarketWire, “Power.com Sues Facebook Over Internet Users’ Rights”

“Power.com's legal counsel, Scott A. Bursor … has previously fought similar battles against wireless phone companies, challenging their longstanding practices of locking customers' cell phones and charging excessive termination fees. In 2007, Bursor achieved landmark settlements that forced Verizon Wireless and Sprint to stop locking customers' cell phones. In 2008, Bursor won a jury verdict awarding Sprint customers a refund of more than $299 million in illegal termination fees.
 
“This lawsuit is similar to the cell phone cases because you have a large company putting locks on its customers' property to prevent those customers from using competing technologies,“ Bursor said. “The cell phone cases established important precedents holding that this type of business practice is anticompetitive and unfair.“
 
“Facebook is attempting to intimidate an innovative start-up company that it perceives as a competitive threat,“ Bursor continued. “Facebook is trying to lock in its users by stifling the development of Power.com's innovative new technologies that liberate Internet users from Facebook's proprietary restrictions over their own data.“

1/29/09 Information Week, "Sprint Back In Court Over Early Termination Fees"

1/28/09 RCR Wireless, "Sprint Nextel ETF class-action heads back to trial"

11/6/08 PC World, "Sprint's Early Termination Fees Under Fire"

11/5/08 Wireless Week, "Lawsuit Slams Sprint Over ETF Fees"

11/5/08 Wall Street Journal, "Termination Fees Are Focus Of Sprint Suit"

11/4/08 Orange County Register, "Sprint eases early termination fees; gets sued"

11/4/08 San Francisco Business Times, "Sprint faces $1.2B federal suit over early termination fees"

11/3/08 Kansas City Business Journal, "Sprint faces $1.2B federal suit about early-termination fees"

11/3/08 RCR Wireless, "Sprint Nextel sued for $1 billion over early-termination fees"

8/4/08 RCR Wireless, "Sprint Nextel dinged $73M for ETF Policy: California Court Decision Seen As Harbinger For Other ETF Cases"

7/30/08 Digital Daily, “$73 Million: How’s That for an Early Termination Fee”

7/30/08 LA Times, “Early Termination fee ruling a blow to Sprint, other cellphone carriers”

7/30/08 The Mercury News, "Sprint early termination fees are illegal, judge rules"

7/29/08 New York Daily News, "Judge Rules Against Sprint's Early Termination Fees"

7/29/08 Information Week, “Sprint Loses ‘Early Termination’ Case, Must Pay $73 Million”

7/29/08, USA Today, “Judge ruling on Sprint fees dials up blow to industry”

7/29/08 Contra Costa Times, "Judge Rules Against Sprint's early-termination cell phone fees"

7/20/08 San Francisco Chronicle, "Wireless Companies Are Cutting Cancellation Fees"

7/10/08, NY Times, "Verizon To Pay $21 Million To Settle Suit Over Fees"

7/10/08, Information Week, "Verizon Wireless Settles Early Termination Fee Case For $21 Million"

7/10/08, Cnet News, "Verizon Wireless Settles Early Termination Suit"

7/9/08, Washington Post, "Verizon Wirelss Agrees To Pay $21 Million To Settle Early Termination Lawsuit"

6/13/08 Cellular News, "Sprint Termination Fees Were Legal, But Too High – Lawyer"

6/11/08 USA Today, "Government relieved of cancelled cellphone fees"

6/11/08 USA Today, "Cell phone fees OK for consumers, not government"

6/4/08, RCR Wireless, "ETFs Playing Out In High-Stakes Battles In Court, Congress"

1/28/08, RCR Wireless, "Verizon Wireless Faces Class Action Over ETFs"

11/28/07, RCR Wireless, “Skepticism remains over Verizon Wireless open-access plans”

11/27/07, RCR Wireless, “Lawmakers, Google, Skype applaud Verizon Wireless decision, others more cautious”

11/3/07, RCR Wireless, “Courts, Congress scrutinize carrier control”