PAS Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Corporation

Representatives of several African-American owned businesses sued Sprint under various civil rights statutes claiming that Sprint’s spending for various vendor services was conducted in a discriminatory manner.  Plaintiffs attacked Sprint’s vendor spending practices involving in excess of $5 billion in corporate expenditures. Our firm succeeded in obtaining summary judgment for Sprint on all counts.  This case produced the following reported opinions: PAS Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Corporation, 139 F.Supp.2d 1149 (D.Kan. 2001) (No. 99-2182-JWL); PAS Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Corporation, 2000 WL 1867571 (D.Kan. 2000) (No. 99-2182-JWL); PAS Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Corporation, 112 F.Supp.2d 1106, 79; Empl. Prac. Dec. P 40,372, 2000-2 Trade Cases P 73,051 (D.Kan. 2000) (No. 99-2182-JWL).